extériorité

\ɛk.ste.ʁjɔ.ʁi.te\

/\ɛk.ste.ʁjɔ.ʁi.te\/ noun

The verdict

“extériorité” is uncommon French (frequency #96,909 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#96,909
frequency rank, French
3,255
“E” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Caractère de ce qui est extérieur.

Corpus desk

Index FR-exteriorite · extériorité · French

extériorité · rank #96,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #96,909
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 3,255
  • PHOTO-FINISH extases

Nearest frequency peer: extases (-2 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 « extériorité »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « extériorité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for extériorité
PropertyValue
Headwordextériorité
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɛk.ste.ʁjɔ.ʁi.te\
Letters11
Frequency rank#96,909
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « extériorité » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.extérioritétombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « extases » (#96,907), « fafa » (#96,911), « explicitant » (#96,906). Parmi 3,255 lemmes en « E », « extériorité » est au #96,909. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

extériorité is uncommon French at frequency #96,909 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ɛk.ste.ʁjɔ.ʁi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Caractère de ce qui est extérieur.".

extériorité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is extériorité, spelled E-X-T-É-R-I-O-R-I-T-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Caractère de ce qui est extérieur.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Toutefois, en examinant de près cette projection de l’image mobile qu’il promène avec ses yeux par-dessus tous les objets environnants, l’halluciné constatera bientôt, avec évidence, non pas l’extériorité, mais l’intériorité de l’image.

Antonyms

This word in other languages

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 "extériorité"?
"extériorité" is spelled E-X-T-É-R-I-O-R-I-T-É. The IPA pronunciation is \ɛk.ste.ʁjɔ.ʁi.te\.
What does "extériorité" mean?
As a noun, "extériorité" means: Caractère de ce qui est extérieur.
How do you pronounce "extériorité"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "extériorité" is \ɛk.ste.ʁjɔ.ʁi.te\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list