excellent
\ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃\
The verdict
“excellent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,865. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,865
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui excelle ; qui possède toutes les qualités requises, très bon.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excellent · excellent · French
excellent · rank #1,865 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,865
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH espèces
Nearest frequency peer: espèces (-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 « excellent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- eaux
eaux
98,138 corpus weight
- espèces
espèces
98,137 corpus weight
- excellent
excellent
98,136 corpus weight
- ferait
ferait
98,135 corpus weight
- foutre
foutre
98,134 corpus weight
- hasard
hasard
98,133 corpus weight
What this shows « excellent » 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 | excellent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #1,865 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excellent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around excellent (IPA \ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #1,865 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui excelle ; qui possède toutes les qualités requises, très bon.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for excellent, with forms such as "ecxellent", "exccellent", and "excelelnt". 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, "excluent", "exceller", "excellente", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 excellent, spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui excelle ; qui possède toutes les qualités requises, très bon.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excellent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les cuisiniers excellent à faire ce mets excellent.
Tom s’efforçait de vendre uniquement la récolte de son jardin, produits excellents assurément, mais de variété limitée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxellent
- exccellent
- excelelnt
- excelent
- excellennt
- excellentt
- excelletn
- excellnet
- exclelent
- execllent
- exxcellent
- xecellent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excellent - 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 "excellent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).