accoudoir
\a.ku.dwaʁ\
The verdict
“accoudoir” is uncommon French (frequency #62,024 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,024
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui est fait pour qu’on s’y accoude ; partie horizontale sur le haut du dossier d’un siège où on s’accoude.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accoudoir · accoudoir · French
accoudoir · rank #62,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,024
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accorderait
Nearest frequency peer: accorderait (-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 « accoudoir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accaparent
accaparent
37,980 corpus weight
- accomplisse
accomplisse
37,979 corpus weight
- accorderait
accorderait
37,978 corpus weight
- accoudoir
accoudoir
37,977 corpus weight
- accusatif
accusatif
37,976 corpus weight
- Agnieszka
Agnieszka
37,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accoudoir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accoudoir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ku.dwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #62,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accoudoir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accoudoir is uncommon French at frequency #62,024 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ku.dwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for accoudoir, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 accoudoir, spelled A-C-C-O-U-D-O-I-R.
Definition
- 1Ce qui est fait pour qu’on s’y accoude ; partie horizontale sur le haut du dossier d’un siège où on s’accoude.
- 2Accotoir, bras d'un siège, sur lequel on repose les bras.
- 3Couronnement d’une balustrade ou de tout autre appui à la hauteur du coude.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accoudoir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avoir un accoudoir sous le bras.
L’accoudoir d’un prie-Dieu.
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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