exagère

\ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ\

/\ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ\/ verb

The verdict

“exagère” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,875. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,875
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
13
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exagérer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-exagere · exagère · French

exagère · rank #16,875 · 10 variants · 13 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,875
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 13 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH faucon

Nearest frequency peer: faucon (+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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « exagère »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « exagère » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

exagère vs exiger
57% similar
exagère vs exigée
57% similar
exagère vs exégèse
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for exagère
PropertyValue
Headwordexagère
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#16,875
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs13
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exagère »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).exagèrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « faucon » (#16,876), « euthanasie » (#16,873), « fauteuils » (#16,877). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « exagère » est au #16,875. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around exagère (IPA \ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,875 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for exagère, with forms such as "eaxgère", "exagere", and "exaggère". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 13 confusable-pair relationships, "exiger", "exigée", "exégèse", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 exagère, spelled E-X-A-G-È-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exagérer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exagérer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exagérer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exagérer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de exagérer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how exagère appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mais si on exagère la réalité des personnes morales on s’expose, bien au delà de Durkheim, à hypostasier la conscience sociale, et tout près de Hegel, à transpersonnaliser l’État.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • eaxgère
  • exagere
  • exaggère
  • exagrèe
  • exagèer
  • exagèrre
  • exaègre
  • exgaère
  • exxagère
  • xeagère

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exagère - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

eaxgère2exagere1exaggère1exagrèe2exagèer2exagèrre1exaègre2exgaère2
Edit distance from "exagère"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exagère"?
"exagère" is spelled E-X-A-G-È-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ\.
What does "exagère" mean?
As a verb, "exagère" means: Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exagérer.
What words are commonly confused with "exagère"?
"exagère" is commonly confused with "exiger", "exigée", "exégèse". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "exagère"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exagère" is \ɛɡ.za.ʒɛʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "exagère" come from?
"exagère" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "exagère", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list