accrochaient
\a.kʁɔ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“accrochaient” is uncommon French (frequency #95,506 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,506
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe accrocher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accrochaient · accrochaient · French
accrochaient · rank #95,506 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,506
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acadia
Nearest frequency peer: acadia (-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 « accrochaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Abruzzi
Abruzzi
4,498 corpus weight
- absorba
absorba
4,497 corpus weight
- acadia
acadia
4,496 corpus weight
- accrochaient
accrochaient
4,495 corpus weight
- accréditant
accréditant
4,494 corpus weight
- Achim
Achim
4,492 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accrochaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accrochaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.kʁɔ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #95,506 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accrochaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accrochaient is uncommon French at frequency #95,506 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.kʁɔ.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe accrocher.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for accrochaient, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is accrochaient, spelled A-C-C-R-O-C-H-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe accrocher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how accrochaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Depuis une demi-heure qu’ils s’accrochaient au comptoir, les condés, on pouvait se demander pour qui ils étaient là.
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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