accident
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,407
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
accident is aFrenchnoun. It means: Événement inattendu qui survient par hasard. Pronounced \ak.si.dɑ̃\. It ranks #1,407 in French word frequency. Often confused with aident and ancient.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accident |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.si.dɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,407 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for accident is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ak.si.dɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,407 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for accident, with forms such as "accdient", "acciddent", and "accidennt". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "aident", "ancient", "accusent", 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 accident, spelled A-C-C-I-D-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Événement inattendu qui survient par hasard.
- 2Événement qui ne porte pas à conséquence pour celui qui le vit.
- 3Événement impromptu causant des dégâts corporels ou matériels.
- 4Affection qui survient brutalement.
- 5Ce qui peut être modifié dans un objet sans en détruire ou en altérer la substance.
- 6Terme utilisé en parlant du sacrement de l’eucharistie pour décrire la figure, la couleur, la saveur, etc., qui subsistent après la consécration.
- 7Signe d’altération placé devant une note : dièse, bémol, bécarre.
- 8En tectonique, surface de contact anormal mécanique dans la continuité d’un banc ou d’une couche comme les failles, les décrochements et les charriages.
- 9Chute brutale de la dénivellation.
- 10Concentration localisée d’éléments.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accdient,acciddent,accidennt,accidentt,accidetn,accidnet,acciednt,acicdent,acident,cacident
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for accident
Misspelling Variants of "accident"
Frequency rank: #1,407 in French
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