exégèse
French, noun/ɛɡ.ze.ʒɛz/
exégèse is spelled E-X-É-G-È-S-E (7 letters) and appears about once in every 1 million words in written French, the 31,863rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Exégèse is a French feminine noun meaning “exegesis (critical interpretation of a text)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Explication grammaticale et étymologique d'un texte ancien difficile, assortie d'un commentaire savant et…”.
What does exégèse mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineexegesis (critical interpretation of a text)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Explication grammaticale et étymologique d'un texte ancien difficile, assortie d'un commentaire savant et d'une interprétation. 2. Étude approfondie d'un texte et en particulier d'un texte sacré ancien. Commentaire philologique, explication historique, et interprétation de la Bible. 3. ou Explication d’un écrit, rendue nécessaire par son caractère prétentieux et alambiqué.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of exégèse
- exégèses plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce exégèse?
- /ɛɡ.ze.ʒɛz/
- /eɡ.ze.ʒɛz/
- \ɛɡ.ze.ʒɛz\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to exégèse
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is exégèse in French?
exégèse appears about once in every 1 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).