accès
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #765 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
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
- 1Action, endroit, ou facilité plus ou moins grande d’accéder dans un lieu, physique ou virtuel.
- 2Fait de pouvoir accéder, arriver à quelque chose.
- 3En 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.
- 4Action 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.
- 5Manifestation violente et éphémère.
- 6Mouvement intérieur et passager sous l’empire duquel on agit.
- 7Phénomène de réflexion ou de transmission se reproduisant à intervalles réguliers.
- 8Le fait d’engager la consultation d’un document sur un serveur.
Synonyms
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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"
Frequency rank: #765 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: