accroche

/\a.kʁɔʃ\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#8,187

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

11

similar word pairs

accroche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Partie d’une annonce publicitaire, généralement le titre, attirant l’attention. Pronounced \a.kʁɔʃ\. It ranks #8,187 in French word frequency. Often confused with approche and accrocher.

Key facts for accroche
PropertyValue
Headwordaccroche
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.kʁɔʃ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#8,187
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of accroche in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for accroche is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.kʁɔʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,187 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for accroche, with forms such as "accorche", "accrcohe", and "accrocche". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "approche", "accrocher", "accrochée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is accroche, spelled A-C-C-R-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Partie d’une annonce publicitaire, généralement le titre, attirant l’attention.
  2. 2
    Séquence ou montage destinés à attirer ou à retenir l’attention du spectateur ou de l’auditeur.
  3. 3
    Fait pour un pneu d’accrocher à la route.
  4. 4
    Fait d’avoir une bonne adhérence, une bonne accroche.
  5. 5
    Résumé très court d’une œuvre, argument, pitch.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: accorche,accrcohe,accrocche,accroceh,accrochhe,accrohce,accrroche,acrcoche,acroche,cacroche

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for accroche

Misspelling Variants of "accroche"

accorche8accrcohe8accrocche9accroceh8accrochhe9accrohce8accrroche9acrcoche8
Misspelling Variants of "accroche"

Frequency rank: #8,187 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accroche"?
"accroche" is spelled A-C-C-R-O-C-H-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kʁɔʃ\.
What does "accroche" mean?
As a noun, "accroche" means: Partie d’une annonce publicitaire, généralement le titre, attirant l’attention.
What words are commonly confused with "accroche"?
"accroche" is commonly confused with "approche", "accrocher", "accrochée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accroche"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accroche" is \a.kʁɔʃ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accroche" come from?
"accroche" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.