exhortent

\ɛɡ.zɔʁt\

/\ɛɡ.zɔʁt\/ verb

The verdict

“exhortent” is uncommon French (frequency #77,507 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#77,507
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exhorter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-exhortent · exhortent · French

exhortent · rank #77,507 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #77,507
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH exhaustifs

Nearest frequency peer: exhaustifs (-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 « exhortent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exhortent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for exhortent
PropertyValue
Headwordexhortent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛɡ.zɔʁt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#77,507
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « exhortent » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).exhortenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « exhaustifs » (#77,506), « expansionnistes » (#77,508), « exponentielles » (#77,509). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « exhortent » est au #77,507. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

exhortent is uncommon French at frequency #77,507 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛɡ.zɔʁt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for exhortent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is exhortent, spelled E-X-H-O-R-T-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exhorter.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du présent du subjonctif de exhorter.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exhortent"?
"exhortent" is spelled E-X-H-O-R-T-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛɡ.zɔʁt\.
What does "exhortent" mean?
As a verb, "exhortent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de exhorter.
How do you pronounce "exhortent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exhortent" is \ɛɡ.zɔʁt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "exhortent", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list