accoutumer

\a.ku.ty.me\

/\a.ku.ty.me\/ verb

The verdict

“accoutumer” is uncommon French (frequency #93,443 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#93,443
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amener à prendre une habitude.

Corpus desk

Index FR-accoutumer · accoutumer · French

accoutumer · rank #93,443 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #93,443
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accompagnèrent

Nearest frequency peer: accompagnèrent (-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 « accoutumer »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accoutumer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for accoutumer
PropertyValue
Headwordaccoutumer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ku.ty.me\
Letters10
Frequency rank#93,443
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « accoutumer » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.accoutumertombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « accompagnèrent » (#93,442), « accrocha » (#93,444), « abaque » (#93,440). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accoutumer » est au #93,443. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

accoutumer is uncommon French at frequency #93,443 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ku.ty.me\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Zero misspellings are on record for accoutumer in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is accoutumer, spelled A-C-C-O-U-T-U-M-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Amener à prendre une habitude.
  2. 2
    Avoir coutume ; souloir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how accoutumer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. À mesure que le rhum vieillit, il se colore, se brunit ; il prend, avec une odeur piquante, une saveur acre & desséchante, dont la nuance empyreumatique huileuse fait dire, à ceux qui n’y sont point accoutumés, que cette liqueur sent le vieux cuir.
  2. Il s’enrhumait constamment. Louis fut donc enveloppé de souffrances jusqu’à ce qu’il eût accoutumé sa vie aux mœurs vendômoises.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accoutumer"?
"accoutumer" is spelled A-C-C-O-U-T-U-M-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ku.ty.me\.
What does "accoutumer" mean?
As a verb, "accoutumer" means: Amener à prendre une habitude.
How do you pronounce "accoutumer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accoutumer" is \a.ku.ty.me\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "accoutumer", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list