Which to use
“excite” is a verb and “excitée” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.
- #13,786
- “excite” frequency rank
- #19,537
- “excitée” frequency rank
- 33323
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | excite | excitée |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Première personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de exciter. | Femme excitée. |
Where the eye mixes excite and excitée
Muted = shared; highlighted = the visual trap. They share 6 letters in sequence. excite runs 6 letters (VCCVCV) against excitée's 7 (VCCVCVV) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.
Look-alike desk: excite vs excitée
These two trip readers on the page rather than in the ear: excite is \ɛk.sit\ while excitée is \ɛk.si.te\. Spoken aloud the problem disappears. In writing it persists, because they differ by 1 letter(s) in length, and the parts of speech differ too (verb vs noun), which is usually the fastest check. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 33323, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
excite is recorded at frequency rank #13,786, classified as averb, pronounced \ɛk.sit\. excitée is at rank #19,537, tagged as anoun, pronounced \ɛk.si.te\.
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 33323, this pair ranks #291,420 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.
Orthographic DNA of excite vs excitée
Shared letters: ceitx. Private to "excite": -. Private to "excitée": é.
"excite" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCV · "excitée" · 7 letters · shape VCCVCVV
Known mistypes of this pair
- excite ← ecxite · exccite · exciet · excitte · exctie · exicte · exxcite · xecite
Frequently Asked Questions
Is swapping "excite" for "excitée" ever safe?
Which is more common, "excite" or "excitée"?
What to do next
Visual near-miss handled. Browse the word pages or a neighbour when the next look-alike shows up.
- Full dictionary entry for "excite" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "excitée" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #291,420 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "excite" and "excitée" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "excitée vs exilée". 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 #291,420 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.