excrétion
\ɛks.kʁe.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“excrétion” is an uncommon French word, ranked #63,733 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #63,733
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Action par laquelle les matières liquides ou solides sécrétées sont poussées au-dehors ou portées dans les réservoirs où elles doivent séjourner.
| 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) |
Where “excrétion” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for excrétion is 9 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛks.kʁe.sjɔ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #63,733 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.
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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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- The one correct French spelling is E-X-C-R-É-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.