accounting
\əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ\
The verdict
“accounting” is uncommon French (frequency #87,295 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,295
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe to account.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accounting · accounting · French
accounting · rank #87,295 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,295
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accoucheur
Nearest frequency peer: accoucheur (-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 « accounting »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aage
aage
12,710 corpus weight
- abon
abon
12,709 corpus weight
- accoucheur
accoucheur
12,707 corpus weight
- accounting
accounting
12,706 corpus weight
- accumulait
accumulait
12,705 corpus weight
- accéléromèt…
accéléromètre
12,704 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accounting » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accounting |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #87,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accounting » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accounting is uncommon French at frequency #87,295 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \əˈkaʊn.tɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe présent du verbe to account.".
Zero misspellings are on record for accounting in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is accounting, spelled A-C-C-O-U-N-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe to account.
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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