excessive
\ɛk.se.siv\
The verdict
“excessive” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,152. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,152
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de excessif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excessive · excessive · French
excessive · rank #10,152 · 11 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,152
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH ethniques
Nearest frequency peer: ethniques (-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 « excessive »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- emblée
emblée
89,852 corpus weight
- ennuis
ennuis
89,851 corpus weight
- ethniques
ethniques
89,850 corpus weight
- excessive
excessive
89,849 corpus weight
- exclut
exclut
89,848 corpus weight
- expliciteme…
explicitement
89,847 corpus weight
What this shows « excessive » 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 | excessive |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.se.siv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #10,152 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excessive »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around excessive (IPA \ɛk.se.siv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #10,152 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de excessif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for excessive, with forms such as "ecxessive", "exccessive", and "excesisve". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "exclusive", "extensive", "excessives", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is excessive, spelled E-X-C-E-S-S-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de excessif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excessive appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’autorité d’un Maurras peut encore servir quand on remarquera la simplicité de ses vers à se laisser aller avec moins de complaisance et seulement en souriant, à goûter la subtilité et l’excessive afféterie des courtes pièces de vers de certains prosateurs qui gongorisent sans mallarmiser le moins du monde.
Malgré sa corpulence excessive, l’autorité de M. Hector sur ses subordonnés n’est guère contestable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxessive
- exccessive
- excesisve
- excesive
- excessiev
- excessivve
- excessvie
- excsesive
- execssive
- exxcessive
- xecessive
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excessive - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).