accotement
\a.kɔt.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“accotement” is uncommon French (frequency #59,048 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,048
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espace compris entre la chaussée et le fossé, entre le ruisseau et la maison.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accotement · accotement · French
accotement · rank #59,048 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,048
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accolée
Nearest frequency peer: accolée (-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 « accotement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acceptais
acceptais
40,956 corpus weight
- accoler
accoler
40,955 corpus weight
- accolée
accolée
40,954 corpus weight
- accotement
accotement
40,953 corpus weight
- accréditée
accréditée
40,952 corpus weight
- achoppement
achoppement
40,951 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accotement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accotement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kɔt.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #59,048 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accotement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accotement is uncommon French at frequency #59,048 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kɔt.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for accotement in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is accotement, spelled A-C-C-O-T-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Espace compris entre la chaussée et le fossé, entre le ruisseau et la maison.
- 2Partie du ballast de chaque côté d’une voie ferrée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accotement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un cantinier qui se rase sur l'accotement, sa glace pendue à un cerisier, attend avec nervosité, la figure débordant de mousse, que nous ayons fini de faire trembler la route.
Les amoureux seuls et les malades s’asseyent sur l’accotement et se plaisent à nommer par leur nom les avoines, les noisettes, les parties du soir, tout ce que l’on pourrait aimer, au fond, sans l’amour ou la maladie.
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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