académie
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,160
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
académie is aFrenchnoun. It means: Assemblée de gens de lettres, de savants ou d’artistes reconnus par leurs pairs, qui a pour mission de veiller aux usages dans leurs disciplines respectives et de publier des ouvrages tels que des ... Pronounced \a.ka.de.mi\. It ranks #2,160 in French word frequency. Often confused with Acadie and academy.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | académie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ka.de.mi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #2,160 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for académie is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ka.de.mi\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,160 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for académie, with forms such as "aacdémie", "acaddémie", and "academie". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "Acadie", "academy", "académies", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is académie, spelled A-C-A-D-É-M-I-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Assemblée de gens de lettres, de savants ou d’artistes reconnus par leurs pairs, qui a pour mission de veiller aux usages dans leurs disciplines respectives et de publier des ouvrages tels que des dictionnaires, des grammaires, etc.
- 2Divisions territoriales de l’Université de France dont chacune est dirigée par un recteur.
- 3Lieu d’enseignement avancé.
- 4Figure entière, nue ou légèrement drapée.
- 5Maison de jeu.
- 6Lieu où les jeunes gens apprenaient l’équitation.
- 7Lieu où les jeunes gens apprenaient l’escrime.
- 8Institut d’enseignement supérieur du protestantisme.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aacdémie,acaddémie,academie,acadméie,acadéime,académei,académmie,acaédmie,accadémie,acdaémie,caadémie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for académie
Misspelling Variants of "académie"
Frequency rank: #2,160 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: