excision
\ɛk.si.zjɔ̃\
The verdict
“excision” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,352. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,352
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Section et ablation d'un fragment d'organe ou de tissu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excision · excision · French
excision · rank #29,352 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,352
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Eudes
Nearest frequency peer: Eudes (-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 « excision »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ermitage
ermitage
70,652 corpus weight
- Eudes
Eudes
70,650 corpus weight
- excision
excision
70,649 corpus weight
- exclamation
exclamation
70,648 corpus weight
- exorbitant
exorbitant
70,647 corpus weight
- Fargo
Fargo
70,646 corpus weight
What this shows « excision » 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 | excision |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.si.zjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #29,352 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excision »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around excision (IPA \ɛk.si.zjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #29,352 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for excision, with forms such as "ecxision", "exccision", and "exciison". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "exclusion", "excursion", 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is excision, spelled E-X-C-I-S-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Section et ablation d'un fragment d'organe ou de tissu.
- 2Ablation rituelle du clitoris et, parfois, des petites lèvres, pratiquée par certaines populations, notamment africaines.
- 3Ablation, sur un acide nucléique, d’un fragment abimé ou inutile.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excision appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'excision d'un cor.
Cette excision met à découvert le derme qui est perforé et l’ouverture résultant de cette perforation sphacélique laisse échapper quelques gouttes de pus.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxision
- exccision
- exciison
- excisino
- excisionn
- excisoin
- excission
- excsiion
- exicsion
- exxcision
- xecision
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excision - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).