excitent
\ɛk.sit\
The verdict
“excitent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #41,784. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #41,784
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exciter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excitent · excitent · French
excitent · rank #41,784 · 12 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #41,784
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exhortation
Nearest frequency peer: exhortation (+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 « excitent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- estomper
estomper
58,220 corpus weight
- everybody
everybody
58,219 corpus weight
- excitent
excitent
58,217 corpus weight
- exhortation
exhortation
58,216 corpus weight
- exigera
exigera
58,215 corpus weight
- existentiel
existentiel
58,214 corpus weight
What this shows « excitent » 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 | excitent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.sit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,784 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « excitent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around excitent (IPA \ɛk.sit\), averb. Corpus frequency is #41,784 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for excitent, with forms such as "ecxitent", "exccitent", and "excietnt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "exigent", "exciter", "existent", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is excitent, spelled E-X-C-I-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exciter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de exciter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how excitent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En sa qualité de gourmande, la Tonsard devint excellente cuisinière, et quoique ses talents ne s’exerçassent que sur les plats en usage dans la campagne, le civet, la sauce du gibier, la matelote, l’omelette, elle passa dans le pays pour savoir admirablement cuisiner un de ces repas qui se mangent sur le bout de la table et dont les épices, prodiguées out…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ecxitent
- exccitent
- excietnt
- excitennt
- excitentt
- excitetn
- excitnet
- excittent
- exctient
- exictent
- exxcitent
- xecitent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excitent - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).