excommunier
\ɛks.kɔ.my.nje\
The verdict
“excommunier” is uncommon French (frequency #71,509 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,509
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Retrancher de la communion de l’Église.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excommunier · excommunier · French
excommunier · rank #71,509 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,509
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exclamer
Nearest frequency peer: exclamer (-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 « excommunier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- eurêka
eurêka
28,496 corpus weight
- exclamer
exclamer
28,493 corpus weight
- excommunier
excommunier
28,492 corpus weight
- exorbitantes
exorbitantes
28,491 corpus weight
- expirée
expirée
28,490 corpus weight
- exploitaient
exploitaient
28,489 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « excommunier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excommunier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛks.kɔ.my.nje\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #71,509 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excommunier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excommunier is uncommon French at frequency #71,509 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛks.kɔ.my.nje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for excommunier in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is excommunier, spelled E-X-C-O-M-M-U-N-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Retrancher de la communion de l’Église.
- 2Rejeter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excommunier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout ce qu’il fit pour satisfaire sa vengeance fut d’enfermer l’abbé et les moines dans les cachots de Coningsburg et de les y retenir pendant trois jours au pain et à l’eau. Pour cette atrocité, l’abbé le menaça de le faire excommunier […]
Sommé de rompre son second mariage par saint Germain, évêque de Paris, il refusa obstinément, et fut excommunié.
Synonyms
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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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