exercent
\ɛɡ.zɛʁs\
The verdict
“exercent” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,966. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #12,966
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exercer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exercent · exercent · French
exercent · rank #12,966 · 12 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #12,966
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH estivale
Nearest frequency peer: estivale (-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 « exercent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- enseignante
enseignante
87,038 corpus weight
- entraînent
entraînent
87,037 corpus weight
- estivale
estivale
87,036 corpus weight
- exercent
exercent
87,035 corpus weight
- favorisant
favorisant
87,034 corpus weight
- festivités
festivités
87,033 corpus weight
What this shows « exercent » 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 | exercent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zɛʁs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #12,966 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exercent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around exercent (IPA \ɛɡ.zɛʁs\), averb. Corpus frequency is #12,966 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for exercent, with forms such as "eexrcent", "execrent", and "exerccent". 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. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "exercer", "exercera", "exercé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is exercent, spelled E-X-E-R-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exercer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de exercer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exercent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’auteur immortel du Traité de la Vie et de la Mort a, dans cet ouvrage, exposé d’une manière admirable l’influence que le cerveau, le poumon et le cœur exercent réciproquement l’un sur l’autre.
toutes choses qui sont connues comme des procédés classiques de poétisation et qui s’exercent ici à déchoséifier, pour lui faire acquérir une âme, cet espace singulier qu’est la galerie Dofano.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- eexrcent
- execrent
- exerccent
- exercennt
- exercentt
- exercetn
- exercnet
- exerecnt
- exerrcent
- exrecent
- exxercent
- xeercent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exercent - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "exercent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (12 here; floor ≥5).