excellente
\ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃t\
The verdict
“excellente” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,000. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,000
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de excellent.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excellente · excellente · French
excellente · rank #3,000 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,000
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH facteurs
Nearest frequency peer: facteurs (+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 « excellente »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- dispositif
dispositif
97,005 corpus weight
- découvrez
découvrez
97,004 corpus weight
- excellente
excellente
97,001 corpus weight
- facteurs
facteurs
97,000 corpus weight
- fameux
fameux
96,999 corpus weight
- feront
feront
96,998 corpus weight
What this shows « excellente » 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 | excellente |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #3,000 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excellente »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around excellente (IPA \ɛk.sɛ.lɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #3,000 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de excellent.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for excellente, with forms such as "ecxellente", "exccellente", and "excelelnte". 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, "excellents", "excellentes", "excellent", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is excellente, spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de excellent.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excellente appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi se réjouissait-il de l’excellente pensée qui lui était venue de pisciculturer cet héritage improductif.
La visite des assommoirs et des pièges à renard, dont il n’oublie jamais de mettre le valet les jours de chasse ; des travaux d’exploitation, d’élagage ou de réparation de routes, sont pour le garde une occasion excellente pour faire toute une série d’observations dont il sait tirer parti : ce sont d’abord les voies qu’il remarque sur la rosée des chemins…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxellente
- exccellente
- excelelnte
- excelente
- excellenet
- excellennte
- excellentte
- excelletne
- excellnete
- exclelente
- execllente
- exxcellente
- xecellente
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excellente - 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 "excellente", 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).