accolés
\a.kɔ.le\
The verdict
“accolés” is uncommon French (frequency #59,764 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,764
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de accolé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accoles · accolés · French
accolés · rank #59,764 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,764
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abstractions
Nearest frequency peer: abstractions (-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 « accolés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- absoudre
absoudre
40,240 corpus weight
- absous
absous
40,239 corpus weight
- abstractions
abstractions
40,238 corpus weight
- accolés
accolés
40,237 corpus weight
- acidose
acidose
40,236 corpus weight
- acting
acting
40,235 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accolés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accolés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.kɔ.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #59,764 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accolés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accolés is uncommon French at frequency #59,764 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.kɔ.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
accolés has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is accolés, spelled A-C-C-O-L-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de accolé.
- 2Se dit de deux meubles ou pièces (ou plus) positionnés l’un contre l’autre pour créer une figure nouvelle composite. Parfois les éléments sont fusionnés comme s'il s’agissait d'un tout, souvent, ils sont simplement posés sans espacement.
- 3Se dit d’écus représentés collés l’un à l’autre. Cette représentation marque généralement une alliance ou un mariage.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accolés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mi-coupé de gueules au chef d’argent chargé de trois losanges accolés de sable, et mi-coupé d’argent à une croix de gueules, cantonnée de quatre serres d’aigle de sable posées en barre, qui est de Rurange-lès-Thionville de Moselle → voir illustration « armoiries avec 3 losanges accolés »
Les écus de France et de Navarre étaient ordinairement accolés.
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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