excitations
\ɛk.si.ta.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“excitations” is uncommon French (frequency #95,887 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,887
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de excitation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excitations · excitations · French
excitations · rank #95,887 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,887
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exhortons
Nearest frequency peer: exhortons (+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 « excitations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- esseulée
esseulée
4,117 corpus weight
- excitations
excitations
4,114 corpus weight
- exhortons
exhortons
4,113 corpus weight
- expect
expect
4,112 corpus weight
- expliquiez
expliquiez
4,111 corpus weight
- extractive
extractive
4,110 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « excitations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excitations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.si.ta.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #95,887 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excitations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excitations is uncommon French at frequency #95,887 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.si.ta.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de excitation.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for excitations, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is excitations, spelled E-X-C-I-T-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de excitation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excitations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si la répétition conduit à un moment à la possibilité de liaison des excitations, il y aurait une évolution des procédés autocalmants qui se manifesterait par l’apparition d'activités sublimatoires.
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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