exacerbe
\ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb\
The verdict
“exacerbe” is uncommon French (frequency #60,769 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,769
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exacerber.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exacerbe · exacerbe · French
exacerbe · rank #60,769 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,769
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Ewen
Nearest frequency peer: Ewen (-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 « exacerbe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Eugen
Eugen
39,234 corpus weight
- Ewen
Ewen
39,233 corpus weight
- exacerbe
exacerbe
39,232 corpus weight
- examinait
examinait
39,231 corpus weight
- exhibitions
exhibitions
39,230 corpus weight
- exogène
exogène
39,229 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exacerbe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exacerbe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #60,769 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exacerbe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exacerbe is uncommon French at frequency #60,769 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛɡ.za.sɛʁb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for exacerbe in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is exacerbe, spelled E-X-A-C-E-R-B-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exacerber.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exacerber.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exacerber.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exacerber.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de exacerber.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exacerbe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’écriture, à un haut degré d’élaboration littéraire, décape, exacerbe, « cruélise » l’expérience en la détachant de cette vérité–là pour une autre, problématique ou expérimentale (sujette à expérimentation) plutôt qu’établie, interrogative au–delà et peut–être différemment de ce que l’expérience donne à l’état brut.
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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