accrues
/əˈkɹuːz/
"accrues" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“accrues” is uncommon English (frequency #72,928 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,928
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of accrue
Corpus desk
Index EN-accrues · accrues · English
accrues · rank #72,928 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,928
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Abydos
Nearest frequency peer: Abydos (-4 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “accrues”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- ABG
ABG
27,078 corpus weight
- Abydos
Abydos
27,077 corpus weight
- accrues
accrues
27,073 corpus weight
- aker
aker
27,068 corpus weight
- Altuve
Altuve
27,065 corpus weight
- Amazonas
Amazonas
27,064 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “accrues” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accrues |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈkɹuːz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #72,928 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “accrues” in English
Rare enough to double-check
accrues is uncommon English at frequency #72,928 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed /əˈkɹuːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of accrue".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for accrues, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is accrues, spelled A-C-C-R-U-E-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of accrue
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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