excentricité

Name: excentricité, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\ɛk.sɑ̃t.ʁi.si.te\

/\ɛk.sɑ̃t.ʁi.si.te\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“excentricité” has 19 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,756. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,756
frequency rank, French: 3,255
“E” headwords: 19
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Position d’un centre qui s’écarte d’un point donné.

Corpus desk

Index FR-excentricite · excentricité · French

excentricité · rank #40,756 · 19 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #40,756
LEN-MEGA 12 letters
VOW-5 5 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 19 variants
BOOK-MID 3,255
PHOTO-FINISH examinera

Nearest frequency peer: examinera (-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.

essouffleme…

59,249
esthétisme

59,248
Eupen

59,247
examinera

59,246
excentricité

59,245
fachosphère

59,243

What this shows « excentricité » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for excentricité
Property	Value
Headword	excentricité
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\ɛk.sɑ̃t.ʁi.si.te\
Letters	12
Frequency rank	#40,756
Misspellings tracked	19
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excentricité »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).excentricitése place ici:

#40,756

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « examinera » (#40,755), « Eupen » (#40,754), « fachosphère » (#40,758). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « excentricité » est au #40,756. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 19 spelling variants around excentricité (IPA \ɛk.sɑ̃t.ʁi.si.te\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #40,756 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 19 likely wrong-spelling variants for excentricité, with forms such as "ecxentricité", "exccentricité", and "excenntricité". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is excentricité, spelled E-X-C-E-N-T-R-I-C-I-T-É.

Definition

1
Position d’un centre qui s’écarte d’un point donné.
2
Caractéristique des coniques, indiquant la forme de la courbe.
3
Éloignement du centre.
4
État de celui, celle, ce qui est excentrique.
5
Agissement ou comportement de ceux qui sont excentriques.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how excentricité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

La ceinture d’astéroïdes venait de se former. Orbitant d'abord sur des orbites très excentriques, une partie de ces astéroïdes réduisirent ensuite leurs excentricités, mais vu leur nombre et leur absence de tourbillons individuels, ils se dévièrent et se dévient encore souvent les uns les autres.
Alors que l’orbite de Mimas revient à la normale et que son excentricité se réduit, y aura-t-il assez d’énergie pour continuer la fonte de la glace ou bien, la source de chaleur s’épuisant, l’eau va-t-elle recristalliser ?

This word in other languages

eccentricity(English)Exzentrizität(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

ecxentricité
exccentricité
excenntricité
excenrticité
excentircité
excentrciité
excentriccité
excentricite
excentricitté
excentriciét
excentrictié
excentriicté
excentrricité
excenttricité
excetnricité
excnetricité
execntricité
exxcentricité
xecentricité

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excentricité - 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.

Edit distance from "excentricité"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "excentricité"?

"excentricité" is spelled E-X-C-E-N-T-R-I-C-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛk.sɑ̃t.ʁi.si.te\.

What does "excentricité" mean?

As a noun, "excentricité" means: Position d’un centre qui s’écarte d’un point donné.

What are common misspellings of "excentricité"?

Common misspellings include "ecxentricité", "exccentricité", "excenntricité", "excenrticité", "excentircité". The correct spelling is "excentricité".

How do you pronounce "excentricité"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "excentricité" is \ɛk.sɑ̃t.ʁi.si.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "excentricité" come from?

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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "excentricité", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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