excrétion
\ɛks.kʁe.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“excrétion” is uncommon French (frequency #63,733 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #63,733
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action par laquelle les matières liquides ou solides sécrétées sont poussées au-dehors ou portées dans les réservoirs où elles doivent séjourner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excretion · excrétion · French
excrétion · rank #63,733 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #63,733
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Ewa
Nearest frequency peer: Ewa (-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 « excrétion »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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36,269 corpus weight
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « excrétion » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excrétion |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.kʁe.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #63,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excrétion » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excrétion is uncommon French at frequency #63,733 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛks.kʁe.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action par laquelle les matières liquides ou solides sécrétées sont poussées au-dehors ou portées dans les réservoirs où elles doivent séjourner.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for excrétion in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is excrétion, spelled E-X-C-R-É-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Action par laquelle les matières liquides ou solides sécrétées sont poussées au-dehors ou portées dans les réservoirs où elles doivent séjourner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how excrétion appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La transpiration se fait par excrétion. — Les mucus s'échappent par l'excrétion. — L'excrétion de l’urine, des matières fécales…
Sans voie spécifique d’excrétion, le bilan en cholestérol de l’organisme serait systématiquement positif.
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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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