exergue
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#20,138
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
4
similar word pairs
exergue is aFrenchnoun. It means: Petit espace réservé au bas d'une monnaie, d’une médaille (dans son champ), voire d'une cloche d'édifice religieux, pour y mettre une date, une inscription, une devise. Pronounced \ɛɡ.zɛʁɡ\. Often confused with exercé and énergie.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exergue |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zɛʁɡ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #20,138 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for exergue is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.zɛʁɡ\. Corpus data places it at rank #20,138 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for exergue, with forms such as "eexrgue", "exegrue", and "exergeu". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "exercé", "énergie", "exercée", 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 exergue, spelled E-X-E-R-G-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Petit espace réservé au bas d'une monnaie, d’une médaille (dans son champ), voire d'une cloche d'édifice religieux, pour y mettre une date, une inscription, une devise.
- 2La date, inscription, ou devise elle-même.
- 3Citation placée hors-texte, à droite en début d’ouvrage, d’article ou de chapitre, qui illustre le propos du texte.
- 4Ce qui présente, explique.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eexrgue,exegrue,exergeu,exerggue,exerrgue,exeruge,exregue,exxergue,xeergue
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for exergue
Misspelling Variants of "exergue"
Frequency rank: #20,138 in French
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