excites
\ɛk.sit\
The verdict
“excites” is uncommon French (frequency #73,980 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,980
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exciter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excites · excites · French
excites · rank #73,980 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,980
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH européiste
Nearest frequency peer: européiste (-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 « excites »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- essuies
essuies
26,024 corpus weight
- eurasienne
eurasienne
26,023 corpus weight
- européiste
européiste
26,022 corpus weight
- excites
excites
26,021 corpus weight
- exils
exils
26,020 corpus weight
- exonérée
exonérée
26,019 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « excites » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excites |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛk.sit\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excites » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excites is uncommon French at frequency #73,980 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛk.sit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
excites has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 excites, spelled E-X-C-I-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exciter.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du présent du subjonctif de exciter.
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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