excellence
\ɛk.se.lɑ̃s\
The verdict
“excellence” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,230. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,230
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Degré élevé de qualité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excellence · excellence · French
excellence · rank #4,230 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,230
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH dépasser
Nearest frequency peer: dépasser (-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 « excellence »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- distinction
distinction
95,774 corpus weight
- dégâts
dégâts
95,773 corpus weight
- dépasser
dépasser
95,772 corpus weight
- excellence
excellence
95,771 corpus weight
- exceptionnel
exceptionnel
95,770 corpus weight
- exercer
exercer
95,769 corpus weight
What this shows « excellence » 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 | excellence |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.se.lɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #4,230 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excellence »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around excellence (IPA \ɛk.se.lɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,230 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for excellence, with forms such as "ecxellence", "exccellence", and "excelelnce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "excellent", "excellente", "excellents", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is excellence, spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-C-E.
Definition
- 1Degré élevé de qualité.
- 2Appellation honorifique qu’on donne aux ambassadeurs, aux archevêques et évêques, et à certains autres prélats.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excellence appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En quoi consiste l’excellence de cette musique, de cette comédie, de ce livre ?
L’excellence d’un fruit, d’un vin, d’un mets, d’un remède.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxellence
- exccellence
- excelelnce
- excelence
- excellecne
- excellencce
- excellenec
- excellennce
- excellnece
- exclelence
- execllence
- exxcellence
- xecellence
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excellence - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "excellence", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).