ACB
\a.se.be\
The verdict
“ACB” is uncommon French (frequency #88,271 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,271
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de altocumulonimbus.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acb · ACB · French
ACB · rank #88,271 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,271
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abrita
Nearest frequency peer: abrita (-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 « ACB »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abrita
abrita
11,731 corpus weight
- ACB
ACB
11,730 corpus weight
- achigan
achigan
11,729 corpus weight
- acquirent
acquirent
11,728 corpus weight
- actionneurs
actionneurs
11,727 corpus weight
- Adamson
Adamson
11,726 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ACB » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ACB |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.se.be\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #88,271 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ACB » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ACB is uncommon French at frequency #88,271 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.se.be\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Abréviation de altocumulonimbus.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ACB in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ACB, spelled A-C-B.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de altocumulonimbus.
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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