exogamie
\ɛɡ.zɔ.ɡa.mi\
The verdict
“exogamie” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Règle pratiquée par un individu qui contracte un mariage à l'extérieur de son propre groupe d’appartenance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-exogamie · exogamie · French
exogamie · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "E" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | exogamie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛɡ.zɔ.ɡa.mi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « exogamie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
exogamie is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛɡ.zɔ.ɡa.mi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Règle pratiquée par un individu qui contracte un mariage à l'extérieur de son propre groupe d’appartenance.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for exogamie, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 exogamie, spelled E-X-O-G-A-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Règle pratiquée par un individu qui contracte un mariage à l'extérieur de son propre groupe d’appartenance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how exogamie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’institution du clan ayant été quasi universelle, on peut supposer que l’exogamie a aussi été générale et que toutes les sociétés ont passé successivement par cette phase.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.