exercise
\ˈɛk.sə.saɪz\
The verdict
“exercise” is uncommon French (frequency #72,315 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,315
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exercice.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exercise · exercise · French
exercise · rank #72,315 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,315
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exagérez
Nearest frequency peer: exagérez (-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 « exercise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- exagérez
exagérez
27,687 corpus weight
- exercise
exercise
27,686 corpus weight
- exorcismes
exorcismes
27,685 corpus weight
- expatriée
expatriée
27,684 corpus weight
- explicitati…
explicitation
27,683 corpus weight
- exponentiel…
exponentiellement
27,682 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exercise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exercise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈɛk.sə.saɪz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #72,315 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exercise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exercise is uncommon French at frequency #72,315 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈɛk.sə.saɪz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for exercise, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is exercise, spelled E-X-E-R-C-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Exercice.
- 2Excursion
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exercise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
physical exercise, mental exercise, yoga exercise, military exercise, textbook exercise.
Many of the exercises in this chapter read data from a file.
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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