excès

/\ɛk.sɛ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#4,668

in French word usage

Misspellings

8

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

excès is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui est en trop. Pronounced \ɛk.sɛ\. It ranks #4,668 in French word frequency. Often confused with eyes and exclu.

Key facts for excès
PropertyValue
Headwordexcès
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛk.sɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#4,668
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of excès in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for excès is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,668 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for excès, with forms such as "ecxès", "exccès", and "exces". 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.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "eyes", "exclu", "expos", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is excès, spelled E-X-C-È-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui est en trop.
  2. 2
    Différence en plus de deux quantités inégales.
  3. 3
    Excédent, reste, différence en plus d’une quantité sur une autre ; résultat d’une soustraction.
  4. 4
    Ce qui dépasse une limite ordinaire, une mesure moyenne, et particulièrement ce qui dépasse le degré convenable, raisonnable et juste.
  5. 5
  6. 6
    Se dit quelquefois au pluriel.
  7. 7
  8. 8
    Débauche ; dérèglement.
  9. 9
    Partie de table entre gourmets.
  10. 10
    Violences, outrages.
  11. 11
    Séparation de corps pour cause d’excès, de sévices et d’injures graves.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ecxès,exccès,exces,excsè,excèss,exxcès,exècs,xecès

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for excès

Misspelling Variants of "excès"

ecxès5exccès6exces5excsè5excèss6exxcès6exècs5xecès5
Misspelling Variants of "excès"

Frequency rank: #4,668 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "excès"?
"excès" is spelled E-X-C-È-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛk.sɛ\.
What does "excès" mean?
As a noun, "excès" means: Ce qui est en trop.
What words are commonly confused with "excès"?
"excès" is commonly confused with "eyes", "exclu", "expos". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "excès"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "excès" is \ɛk.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "excès" come from?
"excès" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.