excrément
\ɛk.skʁe.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“excrément” is uncommon French (frequency #78,408 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,408
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Matière fécale ou urine qui est excrétée par l’effet d’une évacuation naturelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excrement · excrément · French
excrément · rank #78,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,408
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exemptée
Nearest frequency peer: exemptée (+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 « excrément »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excrément
excrément
21,593 corpus weight
- exemptée
exemptée
21,592 corpus weight
- expansive
expansive
21,591 corpus weight
- exploiteur
exploiteur
21,590 corpus weight
- explorons
explorons
21,589 corpus weight
- exportait
exportait
21,588 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « excrément » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excrément |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.skʁe.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excrément » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excrément is uncommon French at frequency #78,408 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.skʁe.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
excrément doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is excrément, spelled E-X-C-R-É-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Matière fécale ou urine qui est excrétée par l’effet d’une évacuation naturelle.
- 2Être vil et méprisé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excrément appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’ichthyosaure n'est pas le seul animal dont on ait trouvé des coprolithes ; M. Buckland a signalé des excréments d'hyène dans la caverne de Kirkdale en Angleterre.
Dans tous les pays où l’agriculture est avancée, on considère les excréments humains, à juste raison, comme un puissant engrais, et l'on prend soin de les recueillir complétement.
This word in other languages
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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