Accra

\a.kʁa\

/\a.kʁa\/ name

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

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.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Accra vs ara
40% similar
Accra vs aura
40% similar
Accra vs acer
40% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Accra
PropertyValue
HeadwordAccra
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.kʁa\
Letters5
Frequency rank#44,285
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Accra »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Accrase place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accidentés » (#44,284), « administrées » (#44,286), « Admiral » (#44,287). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Accra » est au #44,285. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Ville et capitale du Ghana.
  2. 2
    Gouvernement ghanéen.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

accar2accrra1acrca2cacra2
Edit distance from "Accra"

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 "Accra"?
"Accra" is spelled A-C-C-R-A. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kʁa\.
What does "Accra" mean?
As a proper noun, "Accra" means: Ville et capitale du Ghana.
What words are commonly confused with "Accra"?
"Accra" is commonly confused with "ara", "aura", "acer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Accra"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Accra" is \a.kʁa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Accra" come from?
"Accra" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list