acajou

\a.ka.ʒu\

/\a.ka.ʒu\/ noun

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The verdict

“acajou” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,802. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#31,802
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arbre d’Amérique exploité pour son bois généralement rougeâtre et susceptible d’un beau poli, qu’on emploie dans l’ébénisterie, la tabletterie, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-acajou · acajou · French

acajou · rank #31,802 · 7 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #31,802
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH abrégée

Nearest frequency peer: abrégée (-1 rank slots)

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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « acajou »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « acajou » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

acajou vs Anjou
50% similar
acajou vs amadou
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for acajou
PropertyValue
Headwordacajou
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ka.ʒu\
Letters6
Frequency rank#31,802
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acajou »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).acajouse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « abrégée » (#31,801), « accompagnateur » (#31,803), « abordées » (#31,800). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « acajou » est au #31,802. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around acajou (IPA \a.ka.ʒu\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,802 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for acajou, with forms such as "aacjou", "acajjou", and "acajuo". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Anjou", "amadou", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

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 acajou, spelled A-C-A-J-O-U.

Definition

  1. 1
    Arbre d’Amérique exploité pour son bois généralement rougeâtre et susceptible d’un beau poli, qu’on emploie dans l’ébénisterie, la tabletterie, etc.
  2. 2
    Bois de cet arbre.
  3. 3
    Couleur d’un brun-roux soutenu, couleur du bois d’acajou. #88421D
  4. 4
    Crâne chauve.
  5. 5
    Anacardier.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how acajou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le dernier groupement est le mieux représenté et le mieux connu; toutefois, les forêts denses sèches à acajou (Entandrophragma) ont fait l’objet d’études récentes.
  2. Sur des terres où alternent forêts d’acajou et palmeraies vivent fourmiliers géants, anacondas et tatous.

This word in other languages

mahogany(English)caoba(Español)Mahagoni(Deutsch)mogno(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aacjou
  • acajjou
  • acajuo
  • acaoju
  • accajou
  • acjaou
  • caajou

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acajou - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aacjou2acajjou1acajuo2acaoju2accajou1acjaou2caajou2
Edit distance from "acajou"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acajou"?
"acajou" is spelled A-C-A-J-O-U. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ka.ʒu\.
What does "acajou" mean?
As a noun, "acajou" means: Arbre d’Amérique exploité pour son bois généralement rougeâtre et susceptible d’un beau poli, qu’on emploie dans l’ébénisterie, la tabletterie, etc.
What words are commonly confused with "acajou"?
"acajou" is commonly confused with "Anjou", "amadou". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "acajou"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acajou" is \a.ka.ʒu\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acajou" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "acajou", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

épître#31,794Vivien#31,780Virgil#31,779versez#31,778

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

Vogel7 variantsaxiome7 variantsaérer7 variantsBlais7 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list