excipit
\ɛk.si.pit\
The verdict
“excipit” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fin d’un chapitre ou d’un livre (par exemple, le dernier chapitre, ou les dernières phrases, etc).
Corpus desk
Index FR-excipit · excipit · French
excipit · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excipit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.si.pit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excipit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excipit is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.si.pit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fin d’un chapitre ou d’un livre (par exemple, le dernier chapitre, ou les dernières phrases, etc).".
No generated misspelling entries exist for excipit in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 excipit, spelled E-X-C-I-P-I-T.
Definition
- 1Fin d’un chapitre ou d’un livre (par exemple, le dernier chapitre, ou les dernières phrases, etc).
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excipit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Loin de déboucher sur l’anéantissement complet des personnages ou sur une quelconque forme de désespoir nihiliste, les excipits des textes de Genet, Gracq, Modiano et Duras évoquent la possibilité d’échapper au monde mortifère par la création littéraire ou par le sommeil.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.