acception
French, noun/ak.sɛp.sjɔ̃/
acception is spelled A-C-C-E-P-T-I-O-N (9 letters) and appears 1.0 times per million words in written French, the 30,509th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Acception is a French feminine noun meaning “meaning, sense (of a word), acceptation” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sens particulier dans lequel un mot est utilisé”.
What does acception mean in English?
noun
- 1
femininemeaning, sense (of a word), acceptation
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sens particulier dans lequel un mot est utilisé. 2. Fait de tenir compte injustement d’une condition, d’une qualité ou d’une opinion. Sorte de préférence qu’on a pour une personne au préjudice d’une autre.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of acception
- acceptions plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce acception?
- /ak.sɛp.sjɔ̃/
- \ak.sɛp.sjɔ̃\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to acception
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is acception in French?
acception appears 1.0 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).