accolades
\a.kɔ.lad\
The verdict
“accolades” is uncommon French (frequency #58,382 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,382
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de accolade.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accolades · accolades · French
accolades · rank #58,382 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,382
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accidentels
Nearest frequency peer: accidentels (-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 « accolades »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abritera
abritera
41,622 corpus weight
- accept
accept
41,621 corpus weight
- accidentels
accidentels
41,620 corpus weight
- accolades
accolades
41,619 corpus weight
- accouru
accouru
41,618 corpus weight
- acquittent
acquittent
41,616 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accolades » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accolades |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kɔ.lad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #58,382 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accolades » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accolades is uncommon French at frequency #58,382 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kɔ.lad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de accolade.".
Zero misspellings are on record for accolades in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is accolades, spelled A-C-C-O-L-A-D-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de accolade.
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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