exister

\ɛɡ.zis.te\

/\ɛɡ.zis.te\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « exister » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

exister vs existes
86% similar
exister vs existera
88% similar
exister vs ester
71% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for exister
PropertyValue
Headwordexister
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\ɛɡ.zis.te\
Letters7
Frequency rank#4,420
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « exister »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).existerse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « dénonce » (#4,419), « facture » (#4,421), « diamètre » (#4,418). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « exister » est au #4,420. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Être actuellement, en acte ne pas être imaginé, en puissance, mais avoir une réalité.
  2. 2
    Être, se trouver ou avoir lieu actuellement.
  3. 3
    Vivre.
  4. 4
    Ne pas avoir l’importance qu’on pense.
  5. 5
    Être au monde sous une forme matérielle objective.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how exister appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

eixster2exisetr2exisster1existerr1existre2existter1exitser2exsiter2
Edit distance from "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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "exister"?
"exister" is spelled E-X-I-S-T-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛɡ.zis.te\.
What does "exister" mean?
As a verb, "exister" means: Être actuellement, en acte ne pas être imaginé, en puissance, mais avoir une réalité.
What words are commonly confused with "exister"?
"exister" is commonly confused with "existes", "existera", "ester". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "exister"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "exister" is \ɛɡ.zis.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "exister" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list