exciser
\ɛk.si.ze\
The verdict
“exciser” is uncommon French (frequency #90,703 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,703
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enlever par excision.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exciser · exciser · French
exciser · rank #90,703 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,703
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exaspérante
Nearest frequency peer: exaspérante (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « exciser »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- euphorbe
euphorbe
9,301 corpus weight
- exaspérante
exaspérante
9,299 corpus weight
- exciser
exciser
9,298 corpus weight
- excluons
excluons
9,297 corpus weight
- execute
execute
9,296 corpus weight
- exhortait
exhortait
9,295 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exciser » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exciser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.si.ze\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,703 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exciser » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exciser is uncommon French at frequency #90,703 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛk.si.ze\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for exciser in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is exciser, spelled E-X-C-I-S-E-R.
Definition
- 1Enlever par excision.
- 2Pratiquer l’ablation du clitoris et parfois des petites lèvres, dans certains pays.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exciser appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Exciser une tumeur.
Cette parure n’était pas de sa part une coquetterie : il était à cette époque d’usage de percer les oreilles des petites filles auxquelles, pas plus qu’aux excisées, on ne demandait leur avis.
This word in other languages
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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