exerçait
\ɛɡ.zɛʁ.sɛ\
The verdict
“exerçait” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #27,057. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #27,057
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exercer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exercait · exerçait · French
exerçait · rank #27,057 · 11 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #27,057
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH escobar
Nearest frequency peer: escobar (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « exerçait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Escaut
Escaut
72,947 corpus weight
- escient
escient
72,946 corpus weight
- escobar
escobar
72,945 corpus weight
- exerçait
exerçait
72,944 corpus weight
- explorations
explorations
72,943 corpus weight
- expressif
expressif
72,942 corpus weight
What this shows « exerçait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exerçait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #27,057 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exerçait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around exerçait (IPA \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #27,057 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exercer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for exerçait, with forms such as "eexrçait", "exeraçit", and "exercait". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "extrait", "exercent", "exerçant", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is exerçait, spelled E-X-E-R-Ç-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de l’indicatif de exercer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exerçait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’allégeance des Arabes sunnites d’Irak envers l’État n’a existé que tant que cette communauté exerçait le pouvoir ; n’ayant d’autre perspective dans le système confessionnel actuel que de rester une minorité sans ressources et privée de pouvoir, elle se « désirakise » exactement comme les sunnites du Liban se « délibanisent » par le biais de réseaux sala…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eexrçait
- exeraçit
- exercait
- exerrçait
- exerçaitt
- exerçati
- exerçiat
- exeçrait
- exreçait
- exxerçait
- xeerçait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exerçait - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).