excitante
\ɛk.si.tɑ̃t\
The verdict
“excitante” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,944. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,944
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de excitant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excitante · excitante · French
excitante · rank #28,944 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,944
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH essayiste
Nearest frequency peer: essayiste (-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 « excitante »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- environnants
environnants
71,060 corpus weight
- essayiste
essayiste
71,058 corpus weight
- excitante
excitante
71,057 corpus weight
- exportateur
exportateur
71,056 corpus weight
- extorsion
extorsion
71,055 corpus weight
- extraordina…
extraordinairement
71,054 corpus weight
What this shows « excitante » 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 | excitante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.si.tɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #28,944 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excitante »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around excitante (IPA \ɛk.si.tɑ̃t\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #28,944 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de excitant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for excitante, with forms such as "ecxitante", "exccitante", and "exciatnte". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "excitent", "existante", "excitants", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is excitante, spelled E-X-C-I-T-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de excitant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excitante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les enfants aiment se perdre dans un labyrinthe de 28 galeries et 300 chambres, dans une semi-obscurité mi-excitante, mi-inquiétante.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxitante
- exccitante
- exciatnte
- excitanet
- excitannte
- excitantte
- excitatne
- excitnate
- excittante
- exctiante
- exictante
- exxcitante
- xecitante
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excitante - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).