exister
\ɛɡ.zis.te\
The verdict
“exister” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,420
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Être actuellement, en acte ne pas être imaginé, en puissance, mais avoir une réalité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exister · exister · French
exister · rank #4,420 · 10 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,420
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH dénonce
Nearest frequency peer: dénonce (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « exister »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- conclusions
conclusions
95,584 corpus weight
- diamètre
diamètre
95,583 corpus weight
- dénonce
dénonce
95,582 corpus weight
- exister
exister
95,581 corpus weight
- facture
facture
95,580 corpus weight
- façons
façons
95,579 corpus weight
What this shows « exister » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exister »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around exister (IPA \ɛɡ.zis.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,420 among 3,255 “E” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how exister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a donc eu certainement une époque où ce que nous voyons maintenant autour de nous n’existait pas. Qui l'a donc fait ? Qui ? si ce n'est l’Être Suprême.
Tous les objets avaient la force et la volonté de s’affirmer qu’on remarque dans le trompe-l’œil de certaines chromos. Ils disaient à la mer : Nous existons. Je ne suis qu’une carafe de série, semblable à tant d’autres, mais, même au milieu de la mer, au-dessus du gouffre de Romanche, j’existe, j’existe, j’existe.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).