acariâtre
\a.ka.ʁjɑtʁ\
The verdict
“acariâtre” is uncommon French (frequency #67,249 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,249
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - D’un tempérament grincheux, aigri et fâcheux.
| 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) |
Where “acariâtre” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
acariâtre is uncommon French at frequency #67,249 among 424,905 “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.
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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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Using “acariâtre”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-C-A-R-I-Â-T-R-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.ka.ʁjɑtʁ\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.