exercice
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,661
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
exercice is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’exercer ou de s’exercer. Pronounced \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.sis\. It ranks #1,661 in French word frequency. Often confused with exercices and exercé.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exercice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.sis\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,661 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for exercice is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.zɛʁ.sis\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,661 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for exercice, with forms such as "eexrcice", "execrice", and "exerccice". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "exercices", "exercé", "exercée", 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 exercice, spelled E-X-E-R-C-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’exercer ou de s’exercer.
- 2Apprentissage du maniement des armes et des évolutions militaires.
- 3Entrainement du corps, soumis à certaines règles et que l’on apprend à bien exécuter, comme monter à cheval, faire des armes, danser, nager, etc.
- 4Mouvements par lesquels on exerce le corps.
- 5Pratique régulière d’une discipline.
- 6Action de remplir les fonctions d’une charge, d’un emploi.
- 7Action d’user de quelque chose, de la faire valoir.
- 8Année ; période entre deux dates déterminées.
- 9Visite qui se fait chez les contribuables, et principalement chez les marchands de vin et les aubergistes, pour assurer le paiement de l’impôt.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eexrcice,execrice,exerccice,exerccie,exercicce,exerciec,exericce,exerrcice,exrecice,exxercice,xeercice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for exercice
Misspelling Variants of "exercice"
Frequency rank: #1,661 in French
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