excitant
\ɛk.si.tɑ̃\
The verdict
“excitant” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,593. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,593
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est propre à exciter ; qui ranime les forces.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excitant · excitant · French
excitant · rank #13,593 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,593
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH examine
Nearest frequency peer: examine (-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 « excitant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- eus
eus
86,410 corpus weight
- examine
examine
86,409 corpus weight
- excitant
excitant
86,408 corpus weight
- exode
exode
86,407 corpus weight
- export
export
86,406 corpus weight
- faisceau
faisceau
86,405 corpus weight
What this shows « excitant » 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 | excitant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.si.tɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #13,593 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excitant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around excitant (IPA \ɛk.si.tɑ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #13,593 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for excitant, with forms such as "ecxitant", "exccitant", and "exciatnt". 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 10 confusable-pair relationships, "existant", "excluant", "excitent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is excitant, spelled E-X-C-I-T-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Qui est propre à exciter ; qui ranime les forces.
- 2Qui éveille un sentiment vif ou passionné.
- 3Qui provoque à l’excitation sexuelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excitant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Remède excitant.
Potion excitante.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxitant
- exccitant
- exciatnt
- excitannt
- excitantt
- excitatn
- excitnat
- excittant
- exctiant
- exictant
- exxcitant
- xecitant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excitant - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "excitant", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).