accrocher
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,188
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
accrocher is aFrenchverb. It means: Attacher, suspendre à un crochet, à un clou, à un portemanteau, etc. Pronounced \a.kʁɔ.ʃe\. It ranks #8,188 in French word frequency. Often confused with approcher and accrochez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accrocher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.kʁɔ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #8,188 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for accrocher is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.kʁɔ.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,188 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for accrocher, with forms such as "accorcher", "accrcoher", and "accroccher". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "approcher", "accrochez", "accroches", 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 accrocher, spelled A-C-C-R-O-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Attacher, suspendre à un crochet, à un clou, à un portemanteau, etc.
- 2Arrêter, retenir par quelque chose de crochu ou de pointu.
- 3Jeter des grappins et des crocs d’un vaisseau à un autre pour venir à l’abordage.
- 4Heurter ou arrêter une voiture en passant trop près avec une autre.
- 5Retarder ; arrêter.
- 6Attirer à soi ; gagner ou obtenir quelque chose.
- 7Coller au fond d’un récipient pendant la cuisson, attacher, en parlant d’aliments.
- 8Arrêter ou aborder quelqu’un.
- 9Mitrailler ou bombarder une cible.
- 10Mettre au mont-de-piété ; mettre au clou.
- 11Consigner un soldat.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accorcher,accrcoher,accroccher,accrocehr,accrocherr,accrochher,accrochre,accrohcer,accrrocher,acrcocher,acrocher,cacrocher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for accrocher
Misspelling Variants of "accrocher"
Frequency rank: #8,188 in French
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