accise
\ak.siz\
The verdict
“accise” is uncommon French (frequency #67,250 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,250
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Taxe, impôt indirect levé sur la consommation ou le commerce de certains produits tels que le tabac, l’alcool, le pétrole et ses dérivés.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.siz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #67,250 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “accise” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
accise is uncommon French at frequency #67,250 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ak.siz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Taxe, impôt indirect levé sur la consommation ou le commerce de certains produits tels que le tabac, l’alcool, le pétrole et ses dérivés.".
accise doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is accise, spelled A-C-C-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Taxe, impôt indirect levé sur la consommation ou le commerce de certains produits tels que le tabac, l’alcool, le pétrole et ses dérivés.
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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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Using “accise”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-C-C-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \ak.siz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.