exceptions
\ɛk.sɛp.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“exceptions” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,437. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,437
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de exception.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exceptions · exceptions · French
exceptions · rank #7,437 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,437
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH entreprendre
Nearest frequency peer: entreprendre (-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 « exceptions »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Elizabeth
Elizabeth
92,567 corpus weight
- employeurs
employeurs
92,566 corpus weight
- entreprendre
entreprendre
92,565 corpus weight
- exceptions
exceptions
92,564 corpus weight
- exploit
exploit
92,563 corpus weight
- flou
flou
92,561 corpus weight
What this shows « exceptions » 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 | exceptions |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.sɛp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #7,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exceptions »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around exceptions (IPA \ɛk.sɛp.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #7,437 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de exception.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for exceptions, with forms such as "ecxeptions", "excceptions", and "excepitons". 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, "exemptions", "exception", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is exceptions, spelled E-X-C-E-P-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de exception.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxeptions
- excceptions
- excepitons
- excepptions
- exceptinos
- exceptionns
- exceptionss
- exceptiosn
- exceptoins
- excepttions
- excetpions
- excpetions
- execptions
- exxceptions
- xeceptions
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exceptions - 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
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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 (15 here; floor ≥5).