accoutumer
\a.ku.ty.me\
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
- abaque
abaque
6,561 corpus weight
- accompagnèr…
accompagnèrent
6,559 corpus weight
- accoutumer
accoutumer
6,558 corpus weight
- accrocha
accrocha
6,557 corpus weight
- accurate
accurate
6,555 corpus weight
- accuseront
accuseront
6,554 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accoutumer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accoutumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ku.ty.me\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #93,443 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accoutumer » en français
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
- 1Amener à prendre une habitude.
- 2Avoir coutume ; souloir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accoutumer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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