excitable
\ɛk.si.tabl\
The verdict
“excitable” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est susceptible d’être excité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excitable · excitable · French
excitable · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 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 | excitable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.si.tabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
excitable is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ɛk.si.tabl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est susceptible d’être excité.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for excitable, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 excitable, spelled E-X-C-I-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui est susceptible d’être excité.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excitable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qu’il y a de certain, c’est que, sans paroître musculaire à l’œil, elle a son irritabilité particuliere, & que cette irritabilité est excitable par l’action des nerfs.
La stimulation électrique du cortex par Ferrier avait abouti à l’établissement d’une carte de la zone excitable s’étendant largement en arrière du sillon central.
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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.