excellait
\ɛk.se.lɛ\
The verdict
“excellait” is uncommon French (frequency #69,064 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,064
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exceller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excellait · excellait · French
excellait · rank #69,064 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,064
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH explora
Nearest frequency peer: explora (+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 « excellait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- essayages
essayages
30,940 corpus weight
- essayerons
essayerons
30,939 corpus weight
- excellait
excellait
30,937 corpus weight
- explora
explora
30,936 corpus weight
- explosait
explosait
30,935 corpus weight
- exportatrice
exportatrice
30,934 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « excellait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excellait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.se.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excellait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excellait is uncommon French at frequency #69,064 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛk.se.lɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exceller.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for excellait, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 excellait, spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exceller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excellait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Amerighi excellait à imiter la nature, vous le savez.
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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