accent
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#3,377
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
accent is aFrenchnoun. It means: Élévation de la voix sur une syllabe, dans un mot, modification de la voix dans la durée ou dans le ton des syllabes et des mots. Pronounced \ak.sɑ̃\. It ranks #3,377 in French word frequency. Often confused with accès and agent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.sɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #3,377 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for accent is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ak.sɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #3,377 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for accent, with forms such as "accennt", "accentt", and "accetn". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "accès", "agent", "aient", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is accent, spelled A-C-C-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Élévation de la voix sur une syllabe, dans un mot, modification de la voix dans la durée ou dans le ton des syllabes et des mots.
- 2Lorsqu’il s’agit seulement de l’élévation de la voix sur une des syllabes du mot, on le nomme « accent tonique ».
- 3Intonation qui convient à l’expression des divers sentiments.
- 4Inflexions de voix ou de prononciations particulières à une nation ou aux habitants de certaines provinces.
- 5Courte augmentation de l’intensité sonore.
- 6Diacritique. Signe spécial qui se met sur une syllabe, soit pour faire connaître la prononciation de la voyelle, soit pour distinguer le sens d’un mot d’avec celui d’un autre mot qui s’écrit de même.
- 7Élément qui donne une impression, une ambiance.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accennt,accentt,accetn,accnet,acecnt,acent,cacent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for accent
Misspelling Variants of "accent"
Frequency rank: #3,377 in French
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