exceller
\ɛ.kse.le\
The verdict
“exceller” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,644. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,644
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être supérieur, en son genre ; atteindre à la perfection.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exceller · exceller · French
exceller · rank #49,644 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,644
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exagérations
Nearest frequency peer: exagérations (-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 « exceller »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- eunuques
eunuques
50,360 corpus weight
- everyone
everyone
50,359 corpus weight
- exagérations
exagérations
50,358 corpus weight
- exceller
exceller
50,357 corpus weight
- excusable
excusable
50,356 corpus weight
- exerçaient
exerçaient
50,355 corpus weight
What this shows « exceller » 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 | exceller |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛ.kse.le\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #49,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exceller »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around exceller (IPA \ɛ.kse.le\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,644 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Être supérieur, en son genre ; atteindre à la perfection.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for exceller, with forms such as "ecxeller", "excceller", and "excelelr". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "excelle", "excellent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is exceller, spelled E-X-C-E-L-L-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être supérieur, en son genre ; atteindre à la perfection.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exceller appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le maniement des ophidiens est plus délicat : ne s'improvise pas charmeur de serpents qui veut! Les Indiens et les Marocains excellent dans cet exercice délicat qui impressionne les touristes.
L’harmonicorde de Debain, sur lequel Lefébure Wely excellait, était un harmonium pourvu de cordes tendues qui pouvaient être, ou non, frappées pour donner plus de netteté à l'attaque.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxeller
- excceller
- excelelr
- exceler
- excellerr
- excellre
- excleler
- execller
- exxceller
- xeceller
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exceller - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).