accise
\ak.siz\
The verdict
“accise” is uncommon French (frequency #67,250 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,250
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accise · accise · French
accise · rank #67,250 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,250
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acariâtre
Nearest frequency peer: acariâtre (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Rangs de longue queue près de « accise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- absorbante
absorbante
32,754 corpus weight
- acanthe
acanthe
32,753 corpus weight
- acariâtre
acariâtre
32,752 corpus weight
- accise
accise
32,751 corpus weight
- accolées
accolées
32,750 corpus weight
- accommodati…
accommodation
32,749 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « accise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accise is uncommon French at frequency #67,250 among 6,727 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les invités mêmes n’apportereaient pas de joie : ils ne parleraient que de la quantité de vin que chacun distille à son usine, pour des droits d’accise que chacun paye pour le métrage de laine produite…
Les dépenses fiscales concernant les droits d’accise sont surtout liées à l’environnement et à la santé.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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