exister
\ɛɡ.zis.te\
The verdict
“exister” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #4,420 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #4,420
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Être actuellement, en acte ne pas être imaginé, en puissance, mais avoir une réalité.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exister |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zis.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #4,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “exister” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for exister is 7 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ɛɡ.zis.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,420 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for exister, with forms such as "eixster", "exisetr", and "exisster". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "existes", "existera", "ester", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is exister, spelled E-X-I-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Être actuellement, en acte ne pas être imaginé, en puissance, mais avoir une réalité.
- 2Être, se trouver ou avoir lieu actuellement.
- 3Vivre.
- 4Ne pas avoir l’importance qu’on pense.
- 5Être au monde sous une forme matérielle objective.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: eixster,exisetr,exisster,existerr,existre,existter,exitser,exsiter,exxister,xeister
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of exister - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Using “exister”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is E-X-I-S-T-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ɛɡ.zis.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “existes” - see the side-by-side comparison. exister vs existes
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.