exact
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,147
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
14
similar word pairs
exact is anFrenchadj. It means: Qui suit rigoureusement la vérité, la convention. Pronounced \ɛɡ.zakt\. It ranks #4,147 in French word frequency. Often confused with ext and exit.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exact |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zakt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,147 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for exact is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.zakt\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,147 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for exact, with forms such as "eaxct", "exacct", and "exactt". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "ext", "exit", "exam", 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 French form is exact, spelled E-X-A-C-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qui suit rigoureusement la vérité, la convention.
- 2En parlant des choses, faites avec soin, avec ponctualité.
- 3Qui est vrai de tout point.
- 4Qui est conforme à ce qui doit se faire, aux lois de la logique.
- 5Qui est conforme à son modèle.
- 6Sévère ; rigoureux.
- 7Il se dit dans un sens analogue du régime.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eaxct,exacct,exactt,exatc,excat,exxact,xeact
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for exact
Misspelling Variants of "exact"
Frequency rank: #4,147 in French
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