excursus
\ɛk.skyʁ.sys\
The verdict
“excursus” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Digression à l’occasion d’un mot ou d’une pensée d’un auteur de l’Antiquité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-excursus · excursus · French
excursus · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excursus |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛk.skyʁ.sys\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « excursus » en français
Rare enough to double-check
excursus is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.skyʁ.sys\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for excursus in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 excursus, spelled E-X-C-U-R-S-U-S.
Definition
- 1Digression à l’occasion d’un mot ou d’une pensée d’un auteur de l’Antiquité.
- 2Se dit parfois pour excursion.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.