excitable

\ɛk.si.tabl\

/\ɛk.si.tabl\/ adj

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.

Key facts for excitable
PropertyValue
Headwordexcitable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\ɛk.si.tabl\
Letters9
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « excitable » en français

excitablen'entre pas dans le top 100.000 du français: zone de termes techniques, archaïques ou rares.

Beyond rank #100,000. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Qui est susceptible d’être excité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how excitable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Antonyms

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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "excitable"?
"excitable" is spelled E-X-C-I-T-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛk.si.tabl\.
What does "excitable" mean?
As an adjective, "excitable" means: Qui est susceptible d’être excité.
How do you pronounce "excitable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "excitable" is \ɛk.si.tabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "excitable" come from?
"excitable" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list