Which to use
“excède” and “excite” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #23,543
- “excède” frequency rank
- #13,786
- “excite” frequency rank
- 37329
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excède | excite |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de excéder. | Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exciter. |
Where the eye mixes excède and excite
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 4 letters in sequence. excède and excite follow the identical consonant-vowel pattern (VCCVCV). Same shape at a glance is often the real trap, independent of shared letters.
Visual trap between excède and excite
A purely visual mix-up. excède (\ɛk.sɛd\) and excite (\ɛk.sit\) are said differently, so reading them aloud is the quickest way to catch the wrong one. On the page they stay close: they share most of their letters but differ in 2 positions. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 37329, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excède is recorded at frequency rank #23,543, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.sɛd\. excite is at rank #13,786, tagged as averb, pronounced \ɛk.sit\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 37329, this pair ranks #263,196 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excède vs excite
Shared letters: cex. Private to "excède": dè. Private to "excite": it.
"excède" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "excite" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV
Known mistypes of this pair
- excite ← ecxite · exccite · exciet · excitte · exctie · exicte · exxcite · xecite
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "excède" and "excite" mean the same thing in a sentence?
In ordinary French text, does "excède" or "excite" show up more?
After this comparison
Eye-level mix-up between "excède" and "excite" is sorted above. Next: full entries or other pairs that share a letter shape.
- Full dictionary entry for "excède" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excite" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #263,196 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excède" and "excite" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excède vs expédie". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #263,196 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.