acculture
/əˈkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/
"acculture" is a 9-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“acculture” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an immigrant
Corpus desk
Index EN-acculture · acculture · English
acculture · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acculture |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “acculture” in English
Rare enough to double-check
acculture is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed /əˈkʌl.t͡ʃɚ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an immigrant".
acculture doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable English rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Either ac- + culture or a back-formation from acculturation. The correct English form is acculture, spelled A-C-C-U-L-T-U-R-E.
Definition
- 1To familiarize oneself with, and adopt a new culture, especially by an immigrant
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how acculture appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
I accultured myself very easily when I moved from Chile to Brazil; Portuguese, being similar to Spanish, was easy to learn. It might have been harder to acculture to life in Hong Kong.
Etymology
Either ac- + culture or a back-formation from acculturation.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.