accapareur
\a.ka.pa.ʁœʁ\
The verdict
“accapareur” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne qui accapare.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accapareur · accapareur · French
accapareur · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accapareur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ka.pa.ʁœʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accapareur » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accapareur is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ka.pa.ʁœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personne qui accapare.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for accapareur, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is accapareur, spelled A-C-C-A-P-A-R-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Personne qui accapare.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accapareur appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous avez multiplié les articles pour assurer la plus grande liberté à l'exercice de la propriété, et vous n'avez pas dit un seul mot pour en déterminer le caractère légitime; de manière que votre Déclaration parait faite, non pour les hommes, mais pour les riches, pour les accapareurs, pour les agioteurs et pour les tyrans.
Le tigre de Lyon est devenu un parfait accapareur, un capitaliste habile et économe, un maître usurier.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.