accostent
\a.kɔst\
The verdict
“accostent” is uncommon French (frequency #78,096 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,096
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accoster.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accostent · accostent · French
accostent · rank #78,096 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,096
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Achères
Nearest frequency peer: Achères (+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 « accostent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abid
abid
21,908 corpus weight
- abjection
abjection
21,907 corpus weight
- accostent
accostent
21,905 corpus weight
- Achères
Achères
21,904 corpus weight
- acne
acne
21,903 corpus weight
- acqua
acqua
21,902 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accostent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accostent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.kɔst\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,096 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accostent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accostent is uncommon French at frequency #78,096 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.kɔst\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
accostent doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is accostent, spelled A-C-C-O-S-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe accoster.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe accoster.
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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