excaver
\ɛks.ka.ve\
The verdict
“excaver” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Creuser la terre pour ouvrir un chenal, une fosse, un tunnel, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excaver · excaver · French
excaver · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | excaver |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛks.ka.ve\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excaver » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excaver is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛks.ka.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for excaver, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 excaver, spelled E-X-C-A-V-E-R.
Definition
- 1Creuser la terre pour ouvrir un chenal, une fosse, un tunnel, etc.
- 2Creuser, trouer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excaver appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils faisaient partie de l’équipe originale qui avait excavé le fossile.
Pour agrandir ces quatre fenêtres, il avait fallu excaver des murs de huit à dix pieds d’épaisseur.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.