excusable
\ɛk.sky.zabl\
The verdict
“excusable” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #49,645 in French word frequency and used as an adjective.
- #49,645
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
- 13
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Qui peut être excusé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | excusable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɛk.sky.zabl\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #49,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “excusable” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for excusable is 9 letters long, classified as an adjective, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛk.sky.zabl\. Corpus data places it at rank #49,645 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Qui peut être excusé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for excusable, with forms such as "ecxusable", "exccusable", and "excsuable". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 excusable, spelled E-X-C-U-S-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut être excusé.
Antonyms
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ecxusable,exccusable,excsuable,excuasble,excusabble,excusabel,excusablle,excusalbe,excusbale,excussable,exucsable,exxcusable,xecusable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of excusable - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Using “excusable”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-X-C-U-S-A-B-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛk.sky.zabl\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
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.