exista
\ɛɡ.zis.ta\
The verdict
“exista” is uncommon French (frequency #68,270 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,270
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de exister.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exista · exista · French
exista · rank #68,270 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,270
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH excusait
Nearest frequency peer: excusait (-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 « exista »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Euromillions
Euromillions
31,734 corpus weight
- Evin
Evin
31,733 corpus weight
- excusait
excusait
31,732 corpus weight
- exista
exista
31,731 corpus weight
- expliquerai…
expliqueraient
31,730 corpus weight
- explosivité
explosivité
31,729 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « exista » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exista |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zis.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #68,270 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exista » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exista is uncommon French at frequency #68,270 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ɛɡ.zis.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de exister.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exista, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
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 exista, spelled E-X-I-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de exister.
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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