excepté

\ɛk.sɛp.te\

/\ɛk.sɛp.te\/ prep

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The verdict

“excepté” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,703. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#10,703
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hors, à la réserve de, à l'exception de, sauf, hormis.

Corpus desk

Index FR-excepte · excepté · French

excepté · rank #10,703 · 11 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #10,703
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH exceptionnell…

Nearest frequency peer: exceptionnelles (-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 « excepté »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

excepté vs excite
57% similar
excepté vs experte
57% similar
excepté vs exempte
57% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for excepté
PropertyValue
Headwordexcepté
LanguageFrench
Part of speechPreposition
IPA\ɛk.sɛp.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#10,703
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excepté »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.exceptése place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « exceptionnelles » (#10,702), « eve » (#10,701), « extrémistes » (#10,705). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « excepté » est au #10,703. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around excepté (IPA \ɛk.sɛp.te\), apreposition. Corpus frequency is #10,703 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Hors, à la réserve de, à l'exception de, sauf, hormis.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for excepté, with forms such as "ecxepté", "exccepté", and "exceppté". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "excite", "experte", "exempte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is excepté, spelled E-X-C-E-P-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Hors, à la réserve de, à l'exception de, sauf, hormis.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Excepté telles et telles personnes.
  2. Il travaille toute la semaine, excepté le dimanche.

This word in other languages

except(English)excepto(Español)ausgenommen(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ecxepté
  • exccepté
  • exceppté
  • excepte
  • exceptté
  • excepét
  • excetpé
  • excpeté
  • execpté
  • exxcepté
  • xecepté

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

ecxepté2exccepté1exceppté1excepte1exceptté1excepét2excetpé2excpeté2
Edit distance from "excepté"

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 "excepté"?
"excepté" is spelled E-X-C-E-P-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛk.sɛp.te\.
What does "excepté" mean?
As a preposition, "excepté" means: Hors, à la réserve de, à l'exception de, sauf, hormis.
What words are commonly confused with "excepté"?
"excepté" is commonly confused with "excite", "experte", "exempte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "excepté"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "excepté" is \ɛk.sɛp.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "excepté" come from?
"excepté" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

fiancée#10,706frappée#10,707English#10,698défaire#10,691

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

imagines11 variantsinvestit11 variantsconsommé11 variantsliquides11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list