Accra
\a.kʁa\
The verdict
“Accra” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #44,285) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #44,285
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et capitale du Ghana.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accra · Accra · French
Accra · rank #44,285 · 4 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #44,285
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accidentés
Nearest frequency peer: accidentés (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « Accra »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- abruptes
abruptes
55,719 corpus weight
- accidentés
accidentés
55,717 corpus weight
- Accra
Accra
55,716 corpus weight
- administrées
administrées
55,715 corpus weight
- Admiral
Admiral
55,714 corpus weight
- affaiblies
affaiblies
55,713 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Accra » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Accra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.kʁa\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #44,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Accra »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Accra is neighbouring look-alikes ("ara", "aura", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \a.kʁa\. Frequency #44,285 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Accra, with forms such as "accar", "accrra", and "acrca". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "ara", "aura", "acer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 Accra, spelled A-C-C-R-A.
Definition
- 1Ville et capitale du Ghana.
- 2Gouvernement ghanéen.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Accra appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
M. Benoit, chef de cabinet auprès de M. Abelin, ministre de la Coopération, entra alors en contact avec moi, et me demanda de rejoindre le DC 4 à Accra : il souhaitait que j’accomplisse moi-même cette mission en tant que pilote et chef de mission, et me demanda de prendre l’avion de ligne d’U.T.A. qui partait pour Accra le mercredi 9 juillet 1975 ; je lui…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accar
- accrra
- acrca
- cacra
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Accra - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).