excitait
\ɛk.si.tɛ\
The verdict
“excitait” is uncommon French (frequency #61,514 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,514
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exciter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excitait · excitait · French
excitait · rank #61,514 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,514
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exercez
Nearest frequency peer: exercez (+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 « excitait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Estérel
Estérel
38,491 corpus weight
- excitait
excitait
38,487 corpus weight
- exercez
exercez
38,486 corpus weight
- exhibitionn…
exhibitionniste
38,485 corpus weight
- exist
exist
38,484 corpus weight
- expérimenta…
expérimentateur
38,483 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « excitait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excitait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.si.tɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #61,514 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excitait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excitait is uncommon French at frequency #61,514 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛk.si.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exciter.".
excitait doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is excitait, spelled E-X-C-I-T-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exciter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excitait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout de suite, Jean enraya, à la place où il avait dérayé la veille ; et, faisant mordre le soc, les mains aux mancherons de la charrue, il jeta à son cheval le cri rauque dont il l’excitait.
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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