acariâtre
\a.ka.ʁjɑtʁ\
The verdict
“acariâtre” is uncommon French (frequency #67,249 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,249
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’un tempérament grincheux, aigri et fâcheux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acariatre · acariâtre · French
acariâtre · rank #67,249 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,249
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acanthe
Nearest frequency peer: acanthe (-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 « acariâtre »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- accolées
accolées
32,750 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acariâtre » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acariâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ka.ʁjɑtʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #67,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acariâtre » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acariâtre is uncommon French at frequency #67,249 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ka.ʁjɑtʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "D’un tempérament grincheux, aigri et fâcheux.".
Zero misspellings are on record for acariâtre in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is acariâtre, spelled A-C-A-R-I-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1D’un tempérament grincheux, aigri et fâcheux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acariâtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un esprit acariâtre.
Elle est acariâtre et autoritaire : c’est un boulet. Il l’a épousée quand même : c’est une boulette.
Synonyms
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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