accouder
\a.ku.de\
The verdict
“accouder” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - S’appuyer du coude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accouder · accouder · French
accouder · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accouder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ku.de\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accouder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accouder is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ku.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for accouder in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is accouder, spelled A-C-C-O-U-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1S’appuyer du coude.
- 2Faire s’accouder.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accouder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Du zinc, où nous nous tenions accoudés, on découvrait à droite la perspective d'un pont et d'une partie des quais […].
Tout, autour de moi, s’est écroulé en ténèbres. Au milieu de ce noir, je me suis accoudé sur ma table ronde, que la lampe ensoleille.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.