acade
\a.kad\
The verdict
“acade” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sillage, trace ou remous laissés derrière un bateau en mouvement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acade · acade · French
acade · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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 | acade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kad\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acade is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Sillage, trace ou remous laissés derrière un bateau en mouvement.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for acade, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is acade, spelled A-C-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Sillage, trace ou remous laissés derrière un bateau en mouvement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how acade appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oudin, dans son Dict. explique le mot acade, ou erre d’un vaisseau, par le sillage. (La Curne)
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.