excellence
French, noun/ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃s/
excellence is spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-C-E (10 letters) and appears 18 times per million words in written French, the 4,224th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Excellence is a French feminine noun meaning “excellence” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Degré élevé de qualité”.
What does excellence mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineexcellence
bourse d'excellence
- 2
feminineexcellency (term of address)
Son Excellence
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Degré élevé de qualité. 2. Appellation honorifique qu’on donne aux ambassadeurs, aux archevêques et évêques, et à certains autres prélats.
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 excellence
- excellences plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce excellence?
- /ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃s/
- \ɛk.se.lɑ̃s\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to excellence
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is excellence in French?
excellence appears 18 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).