acanthe
\a.kɑ̃t\
The verdict
“acanthe” is uncommon French (frequency #67,248 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,248
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante du genre Acanthus, de la famille des Acanthaceae, remarquable par ses belles feuilles découpées, dont l’extrémité se recourbe naturellement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acanthe · acanthe · French
acanthe · rank #67,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,248
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH absorbante
Nearest frequency peer: absorbante (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « acanthe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aberrantes
aberrantes
32,756 corpus weight
- abjectes
abjectes
32,755 corpus weight
- absorbante
absorbante
32,754 corpus weight
- acanthe
acanthe
32,753 corpus weight
- acariâtre
acariâtre
32,752 corpus weight
- accise
accise
32,751 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acanthe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acanthe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #67,248 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acanthe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acanthe is uncommon French at frequency #67,248 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for acanthe in our index, 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, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is acanthe, spelled A-C-A-N-T-H-E.
Definition
- 1Plante du genre Acanthus, de la famille des Acanthaceae, remarquable par ses belles feuilles découpées, dont l’extrémité se recourbe naturellement.
- 2Ornement imité de la feuille d’acanthe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acanthe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La feuille d’acanthe a servi de modèle pour l’ornement du chapiteau corinthien.
acanthe Arts. — L’histoire rapporte que la nourrice d’une pauvre jeune fille, morte quelques jours avant son mariage, avait placé respectueusement sur sa tombe un petit panier qui contenait quelques fleurs et le voile qui devait parer la jeune fille au jour de ses noces; une large tuile couvrait le panier; une plante d’acanthe, croissant près de là, entou…
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); frequency ordering uses the FrequencyWords open word-frequency list (2018 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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