exalter

\ɛɡ.zal.te\

/\ɛɡ.zal.te\/ verb

The verdict

“exalter” is uncommon French (frequency #54,571 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#54,571
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élever très haut.

Corpus desk

Index FR-exalter · exalter · French

exalter · rank #54,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #54,571
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH excavations

Nearest frequency peer: excavations (+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 « exalter »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exalter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for exalter
PropertyValue
Headwordexalter
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛɡ.zal.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#54,571
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « exalter » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).exaltertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « excavations » (#54,572), « estompent » (#54,569), « excédés » (#54,573). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « exalter » est au #54,571. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

exalter is uncommon French at frequency #54,571 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛɡ.zal.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

exalter doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is exalter, spelled E-X-A-L-T-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Élever très haut.
  2. 2
    Élever très haut par des louanges, rendre honneur à.
  3. 3
    Élever jusqu’à l’enthousiasme.
  4. 4
    S’enthousiasmer.
  5. 5
    Élever, transporter, jeter dans une sorte de délire.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Il faut songer qu’à cette époque il y avait en Afrique un assez grand nombre de montanistes qui exaltaient beaucoup la gloire du martyre et n’admettaient point que l’on eût le droit de fuir la persécution.
  2. Je n’arrive pas à comprendre comment on peut goûter, admirer, exalter une beauté artistique, et rester en même temps un homme méchant, égoïste.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exalter"?
"exalter" is spelled E-X-A-L-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛɡ.zal.te\.
What does "exalter" mean?
As a verb, "exalter" means: Élever très haut.
How do you pronounce "exalter"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exalter" is \ɛɡ.zal.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "exalter" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list