excédent
French, noun
excédent is spelled E-X-C-É-D-E-N-T (8 letters) and appears 3.6 times per million words in written French, the 13,986th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Excédent is a French masculine noun meaning “excess, surplus” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). With an accent, excèdent is a different word: “third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of excéder”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Le nombre, la quantité qui excède”.
What does excédent mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineexcess, surplus
verb
- 1
third-person plural present indicative/subjunctive of excéder
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Le nombre, la quantité qui excède. 2. Situation où les recettes sont supérieures aux dépenses.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of excédent
- excédents plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is excédent in French?
excédent appears 3.6 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).