exist
\ɪɡˈzɪst\
The verdict
“exist” is uncommon French (frequency #61,517 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,517
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exist · exist · French
exist · rank #61,517 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,517
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH exhibitionnis…
Nearest frequency peer: exhibitionniste (-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 « exist »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- excitait
excitait
38,487 corpus weight
- exercez
exercez
38,486 corpus weight
- exhibitionn…
exhibitionniste
38,485 corpus weight
- exist
exist
38,484 corpus weight
- expérimenta…
expérimentateur
38,483 corpus weight
- extraverti
extraverti
38,482 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exist » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exist |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɪɡˈzɪst\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,517 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exist » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exist is uncommon French at frequency #61,517 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɪɡˈzɪst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Exister.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exist, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is exist, spelled E-X-I-S-T.
Definition
- 1Exister.
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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