accent plat
\ak.sɑ̃ pla\
The verdict
“accent plat” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 11
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Macron (diacritique), diacritique ◌̄.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accent-plat · accent plat · French
accent plat · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | accent plat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.sɑ̃ pla\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “accent plat” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
accent plat is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ak.sɑ̃ pla\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Macron (diacritique), diacritique ◌̄.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for accent plat in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 accent plat, spelled A-C-C-E-N-T- -P-L-A-T.
Definition
- 1Macron (diacritique), diacritique ◌̄.
Synonyms
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