exige
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,630
in Spanish word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
exige is aSpanishverb. It means: Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de exigir. Pronounced [ekˈsixe]. It ranks #3,630 in Spanish word frequency. Often confused with exit and éxito.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exige |
| Language | Spanish |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [ekˈsixe] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #3,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The Spanish entry for exige is 5 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as [ekˈsixe]. Corpus data places it at rank #3,630 in overall Spanish word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for exige, with forms such as "eixge", "exgie", and "exieg". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "exit", "éxito", "exijo", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct Spanish form is exige, spelled E-X-I-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Tercera persona del singular (él, ella, ello; usted, 2.ª persona) del presente de indicativo de exigir.
- 2Segunda persona del singular (tú) del imperativo afirmativo de exigir.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eixge,exgie,exieg,exigge,exxige,xeige
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for exige
Misspelling Variants of "exige"
Frequency rank: #3,630 in Spanish
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Nearby Spanish words
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