accès

/\ak.sɛ\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#765

in French word usage

Misspellings

6

tracked variants

Confusables

20

similar word pairs

accès is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action, endroit, ou facilité plus ou moins grande d’accéder dans un lieu, physique ou virtuel. Pronounced \ak.sɛ\. It ranks #765 in French word frequency. Often confused with ace and aes.

Key facts for accès
PropertyValue
Headwordaccès
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ak.sɛ\
Letters5
Frequency rank#765
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of accès in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for accès is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ak.sɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #765 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for accès, with forms such as "acces", "accsè", and "accèss". 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, "ace", "aes", "acs", 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 accès, spelled A-C-C-È-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action, endroit, ou facilité plus ou moins grande d’accéder dans un lieu, physique ou virtuel.
  2. 2
    Fait de pouvoir accéder, arriver à quelque chose.
  3. 3
    En matière de bénéfices, manière d’accéder à la jouissance d’un bénéfice en raison de l’incompétence d’âge ou de la mort du titulaire.
  4. 4
    Action pour un cardinal de se joindre à d’autres lors de l’élection d’un pape ; sorte de ballottage dans lequel les cardinaux reportent leurs suffrages sur un candidat qui n’avait pas obtenu un nombre de voix suffisant.
  5. 5
    Manifestation violente et éphémère.
  6. 6
    Mouvement intérieur et passager sous l’empire duquel on agit.
  7. 7
    Phénomène de réflexion ou de transmission se reproduisant à intervalles réguliers.
  8. 8
    Le fait d’engager la consultation d’un document sur un serveur.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acces,accsè,accèss,acècs,acès,cacès

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for accès

Misspelling Variants of "accès"

acces5accsè5accèss6acècs5acès4cacès5
Misspelling Variants of "accès"

Frequency rank: #765 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accès"?
"accès" is spelled A-C-C-È-S. The IPA pronunciation is \ak.sɛ\.
What does "accès" mean?
As a noun, "accès" means: Action, endroit, ou facilité plus ou moins grande d’accéder dans un lieu, physique ou virtuel.
What words are commonly confused with "accès"?
"accès" is commonly confused with "ace", "aes", "acs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accès"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accès" is \ak.sɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accès" come from?
"accès" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.