excelle
\ɛk.sɛl\
The verdict
“excelle” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,860. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,860
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exceller.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excelle · excelle · French
excelle · rank #23,860 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,860
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH extrémisme
Nearest frequency peer: extrémisme (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « excelle »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- encadrant
encadrant
76,145 corpus weight
- endommagée
endommagée
76,144 corpus weight
- erronées
erronées
76,143 corpus weight
- excelle
excelle
76,141 corpus weight
- extrémisme
extrémisme
76,140 corpus weight
- fanatisme
fanatisme
76,138 corpus weight
What this shows « excelle » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excelle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.sɛl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #23,860 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excelle »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around excelle (IPA \ɛk.sɛl\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,860 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for excelle, with forms such as "ecxelle", "exccelle", and "excele". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "exclue", "excepté", "exceller", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is excelle, spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exceller.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exceller.
- 3Première personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exceller.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exceller.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de exceller.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excelle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aujourd’hui, rencontre avec le Sierentzois Laurent Guénaire, qui excelle en footgolf sur les greens du monde entier.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxelle
- exccelle
- excele
- excelel
- exclele
- execlle
- exxcelle
- xecelle
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excelle - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).