acceptable
\ak.sɛp.tabl\
The verdict
“acceptable” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,644. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,644
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut, qui doit être accepté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acceptable · acceptable · French
acceptable · rank #8,644 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #8,644
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acceptent
Nearest frequency peer: acceptent (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « acceptable »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- éternelle
éternelle
91,360 corpus weight
- évacuer
évacuer
91,359 corpus weight
- acceptable
acceptable
91,357 corpus weight
- acceptent
acceptent
91,356 corpus weight
- acides
acides
91,355 corpus weight
- Adrien
Adrien
91,354 corpus weight
What this shows « acceptable » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acceptable |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ak.sɛp.tabl\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #8,644 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acceptable »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around acceptable (IPA \ak.sɛp.tabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #8,644 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for acceptable, with forms such as "accepatble", "accepptable", and "acceptabble". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "acceptables", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is acceptable, spelled A-C-C-E-P-T-A-B-L-E.
Definition
- 1Qui peut, qui doit être accepté.
- 2Correct ; satisfaisant ; passable.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acceptable appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce fut le rôle historique de Charles de Gaulle, qui avait déjà, de façon assez analogue, rendu acceptable à la bourgeoisie française l’entrée dans la coalition anti-hitlérienne aux côtés de Staline et des communistes français.
Tous ces risques qui freinent considérablement les principes de socialisation au sein des communautés en lignes font du trolling une pratique non acceptable, voire dangereuse, pour les communautés.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accepatble
- accepptable
- acceptabble
- acceptabel
- acceptablle
- acceptalbe
- acceptbale
- accepttable
- accetpable
- accpetable
- acecptable
- aceptable
- caceptable
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acceptable - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).