accore
French, noun
accore is spelled A-C-C-O-R-E (6 letters) and appears about once in every 91 million words in written French, the 298,135th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Accore is a French masculine noun meaning “shore, prop, strut” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is also a first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive of accorer. With an accent, accoré is a different word: “past participle of accorer”. The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pièce de bois qu’on dresse presque verticalement pour étayer un objet, pour le maintenir en place”.
What does accore mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineshore, prop, strut
adjective
- 1
sheer (very steep)
verb
- 1
first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
- 2
second-person singular imperative
verb
- 1
past participle of accorer
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pièce de bois qu’on dresse presque verticalement pour étayer un objet, pour le maintenir en place. 2. Contour d’un banc, d’un écueil. 3. Côte escarpée, voire falaise, qui est bordée de fonds marins verticaux et très profonds.
adjective: 1. Immédiatement bordée de fonds importants et presque sans estrans.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of accore
- accores plural
- écore alternative
- accorée feminine
- accorés masculine plural
- accorées feminine plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How common is accore in French?
accore appears about once in every 91 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).