excroissance
The verdict
“excroissance” is an uncommon French word, ranked #55,948 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #55,948
- frequency rank, French
- 12
- letters
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Sorte de tumeur qui se forme sur quelque partie extérieure du corps de l’homme ou de l’animal.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excroissance |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛks.kʁwa.sɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,948 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “excroissance” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for excroissance is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛks.kʁwa.sɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #55,948 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for excroissance in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is excroissance, spelled E-X-C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Sorte de tumeur qui se forme sur quelque partie extérieure du corps de l’homme ou de l’animal.
- 2Tumeur des arbres, des plantes.
- 3Développement volumineux parasitaire.
- 4Petit bout arrondi d’une pièce de puzzle qui s’imbrique dans le creux d’une autre pièce.
- 5Corps secondaire qui croît vers l’extérieur d’un corps principal.
This word in other languages
Frequency rank: #55,948 in French
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Using “excroissance”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-X-C-R-O-I-S-S-A-N-C-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛks.kʁwa.sɑ̃s\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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