excarcération
\ɛks.kaʁ.se.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“excarcération” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de libérer celui ou celle qui est incarcéré.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excarceration · excarcération · French
excarcération · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excarcération |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.kaʁ.se.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
excarcération is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛks.kaʁ.se.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for excarcération, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is excarcération, spelled E-X-C-A-R-C-É-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action de libérer celui ou celle qui est incarcéré.
- 2Politique consistant à limiter radicalement le recours à l’incarcération.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excarcération appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, toutes les formalités ayant été remplies, l’excarcération des cinq prêtres réfractaires fut définitivement arrêtée pour le 10 vendémiaire an VII (1ᵉʳ octobre 1798).
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.