accouru
\a.ku.ʁy\
The verdict
“accouru” is uncommon French (frequency #58,383 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,383
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom donné à une personne venue s’installer dans une commune à laquelle elle est étrangère.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accouru · accouru · French
accouru · rank #58,383 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,383
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accolades
Nearest frequency peer: accolades (-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 « accouru »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accept
accept
41,621 corpus weight
- accidentels
accidentels
41,620 corpus weight
- accolades
accolades
41,619 corpus weight
- accouru
accouru
41,618 corpus weight
- acquittent
acquittent
41,616 corpus weight
- admirais
admirais
41,615 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accouru » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accouru |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ku.ʁy\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,383 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accouru » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accouru is uncommon French at frequency #58,383 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ku.ʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for accouru, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is accouru, spelled A-C-C-O-U-R-U.
Definition
- 1Nom donné à une personne venue s’installer dans une commune à laquelle elle est étrangère.
- 2Parisien venu s’installer en Normandie ou y possédant une résidence secondaire, en particulier dans le Perche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accouru appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il faut ajouter que l’on eût fort mécontenté Zénaïde en logeant auprès d’elle « l’accouru » ; c’était le nom que les habitants de Bourg donnaient aux étrangers en général, dont ils redoutaient l’envahissement.
Les accourus contribuent depuis longtemps, selon la journaliste, à l’économie du Perche.
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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