acquiescent
/æˈkwi.ɛsn̩t/
"acquiescent" is a 11-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“acquiescent” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
Corpus desk
Index EN-acquiescent · acquiescent · English
acquiescent · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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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 | acquiescent |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | /æˈkwi.ɛsn̩t/ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “acquiescent” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
acquiescent is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed /æˈkwi.ɛsn̩t/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for acquiescent, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin acquiescens, -entis; present participle. The correct English form is acquiescent, spelled A-C-Q-U-I-E-S-C-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1willing to acquiesce, accept or agree to something without objection, protest or resistance
- 2resting satisfied or submissive; disposed tacitly to submit
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acquiescent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
This view is reflected in the novelist's stock portrait of the white-man-in-exile's dusky mistress; an acquiescent shadow, who comes to life only if thrown aside, when, sinister and vindictive, she is ready with the wasting poison.
an acquiescent policy
Etymology
From Latin acquiescens, -entis; present participle.
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