excavations
\ɛk.ska.va.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“excavations” is uncommon French (frequency #54,572 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,572
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de excavation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excavations · excavations · French
excavations · rank #54,572 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,572
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exalter
Nearest frequency peer: exalter (-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 « excavations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- estompent
estompent
45,432 corpus weight
- exalter
exalter
45,430 corpus weight
- excavations
excavations
45,429 corpus weight
- excédés
excédés
45,428 corpus weight
- exhaustivité
exhaustivité
45,427 corpus weight
- expressionn…
expressionnisme
45,426 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « excavations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excavations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.ska.va.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #54,572 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excavations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excavations is uncommon French at frequency #54,572 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.ska.va.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de excavation.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for excavations in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is excavations, spelled E-X-C-A-V-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de excavation.
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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