exérèse
\ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛz\
The verdict
“exérèse” is uncommon French (frequency #94,789 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #94,789
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Toute opération qui consiste à extraire ou à retrancher du corps humain ce qui est étranger, nuisible ou superflu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exerese · exérèse · French
exérèse · rank #94,789 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #94,789
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exploserait
Nearest frequency peer: exploserait (-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 « exérèse »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Eucaryotes
Eucaryotes
5,216 corpus weight
- evolve
evolve
5,214 corpus weight
- exploserait
exploserait
5,213 corpus weight
- exérèse
exérèse
5,212 corpus weight
- Faenza
Faenza
5,210 corpus weight
- fag
fag
5,209 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exérèse » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exérèse |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛz\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #94,789 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exérèse » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exérèse is uncommon French at frequency #94,789 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛɡ.ze.ʁɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Toute opération qui consiste à extraire ou à retrancher du corps humain ce qui est étranger, nuisible ou superflu.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for exérèse, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is exérèse, spelled E-X-É-R-È-S-E.
Definition
- 1Toute opération qui consiste à extraire ou à retrancher du corps humain ce qui est étranger, nuisible ou superflu.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exérèse appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En outre, la distinction opérable / inopérable se complique, certains cancers inopérables peuvent devenir accessibles à l’exérèse si celle-ci est couplée à la radiothérapie.
Longtemps, le diagnostic de l’endométriose n’a reposé que sur l’exérèse chirurgicale de lésions.
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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