exercer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,232
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
10
similar word pairs
exercer is aFrenchverb. It means: Dresser, former, instruire à quelque chose par des actes fréquents. Pronounced \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.se\. It ranks #4,232 in French word frequency. Often confused with Exeter and exercera.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exercer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.se\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,232 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for exercer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.se\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,232 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for exercer, with forms such as "eexrcer", "execrer", and "exerccer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "Exeter", "exercera", "exercé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is exercer, spelled E-X-E-R-C-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Dresser, former, instruire à quelque chose par des actes fréquents.
- 2Développer par des pratiques régulières.
- 3Dresser un animal.
- 4Faire mouvoir, pour mettre ou maintenir en état de bon fonctionnement.
- 5Pratiquer.
- 6Exercer une magistrature, une charge, une profession.
- 7Faire usage, en parlant de l’éloquence, du talent, etc.
- 8Agir, faire des actes, faire éprouver les effets à autrui.
- 9User de, faire valoir un droit, un privilège, etc.
- 10Surveiller certaines industries et certains commerces pour assurer le paiement des impôts.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eexrcer,execrer,exerccer,exercerr,exercre,exerecr,exerrcer,exrecer,exxercer,xeercer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for exercer
Misspelling Variants of "exercer"
Frequency rank: #4,232 in French
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