exégète
\ɛɡ.ze.ʒɛt\
The verdict
“exégète” is uncommon French (frequency #69,828 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,828
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui s’occupe d’exégèse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exegete · exégète · French
exégète · rank #69,828 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,828
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exécutera
Nearest frequency peer: exécutera (-1 rank slots)
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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « exégète »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excuserez
excuserez
30,175 corpus weight
- exécutera
exécutera
30,174 corpus weight
- exégète
exégète
30,173 corpus weight
- fabriquez
fabriquez
30,172 corpus weight
- falsificati…
falsifications
30,170 corpus weight
- faner
faner
30,169 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exégète » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exégète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.ze.ʒɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #69,828 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exégète » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exégète is uncommon French at frequency #69,828 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛɡ.ze.ʒɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui s’occupe d’exégèse.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exégète, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is exégète, spelled E-X-É-G-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Personne qui s’occupe d’exégèse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exégète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Où vous ne voyez qu’une phrase concrète et brutale, l’exégète voit un sens mystique dont la hauteur échappe à votre entendement.
Sieger dira qu’il énonce en exégète et non en théologien (enseigne à la faculté des arts, non de théologie), et que citer un auteur n’est pas reprendre à son compte l’énoncé.
This word in other languages
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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