exacerbation
\ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.ba.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“exacerbation” is uncommon French (frequency #64,430 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,430
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’exacerber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exacerbation · exacerbation · French
exacerbation · rank #64,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,430
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exaspérée
Nearest frequency peer: exaspérée (+1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « exacerbation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ernestine
Ernestine
35,576 corpus weight
- escher
escher
35,575 corpus weight
- exacerbation
exacerbation
35,571 corpus weight
- exaspérée
exaspérée
35,570 corpus weight
- exempter
exempter
35,568 corpus weight
- exfiltration
exfiltration
35,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exacerbation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exacerbation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.ba.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #64,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exacerbation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exacerbation is uncommon French at frequency #64,430 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛɡ.za.sɛʁ.ba.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’exacerber.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exacerbation, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is exacerbation, spelled E-X-A-C-E-R-B-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action d’exacerber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exacerbation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Handicaps, dérives, exacerbations, une jeunesse en danger et vue par le bout de la lorgnette des arts plastiques.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).