accroire
\a.kʁwaʁ\
The verdict
“accroire” is uncommon French (frequency #66,465 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,465
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fausseté, chose que l’on veut faire croire qui n’est pas vraie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accroire · accroire · French
accroire · rank #66,465 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,465
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accostage
Nearest frequency peer: accostage (-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 « accroire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Abruzzes
Abruzzes
33,539 corpus weight
- AccorHotels
AccorHotels
33,538 corpus weight
- accostage
accostage
33,537 corpus weight
- accroire
accroire
33,536 corpus weight
- accroupis
accroupis
33,535 corpus weight
- achievement
achievement
33,534 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accroire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accroire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kʁwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #66,465 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accroire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accroire is uncommon French at frequency #66,465 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kʁwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fausseté, chose que l’on veut faire croire qui n’est pas vraie.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for accroire, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is accroire, spelled A-C-C-R-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Fausseté, chose que l’on veut faire croire qui n’est pas vraie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accroire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bast ! dit en riant Brancabanda : alons-donc ! vous voudriez me faire des accroires, & me persuader que des vessies sont des lanternes.
On ne se fait pas trop d’accroires. D’abord, on n’est pas des vrais musiciens purs et durs mais on a été très chanceux jusqu’ici. Pour ce qui est des attentes quant au succès de l’album, on n’en a pas vraiment.
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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