excès
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,668 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Ce qui est en trop.
- 2Différence en plus de deux quantités inégales.
- 3Excédent, reste, différence en plus d’une quantité sur une autre ; résultat d’une soustraction.
- 4Ce qui dépasse une limite ordinaire, une mesure moyenne, et particulièrement ce qui dépasse le degré convenable, raisonnable et juste.
- 5…
- 6Se dit quelquefois au pluriel.
- 7…
- 8Débauche ; dérèglement.
- 9Partie de table entre gourmets.
- 10Violences, outrages.
- 11Séparation 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
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Misspelling Variants of "excès"
Frequency rank: #4,668 in French
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