accroissement
Letters
13 characters
Frequency Rank
#10,625
in French word usage
Misspellings
16
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
accroissement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de croître, de se développer. Pronounced \ak.ʁwas.mɑ̃\. Often confused with accroissent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accroissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ak.ʁwas.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #10,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for accroissement is 13 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ak.ʁwas.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #10,625 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 16 documented wrong-spelling variants for accroissement, with forms such as "accorissement", "accriossement", and "accroisement". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "accroissent", 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 accroissement, spelled A-C-C-R-O-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de croître, de se développer.
- 2L’augmentation que reçoit la personne ou l’objet qui s’accroît.
- 3Droit par lequel une chose accroît à quelque personne ou à quelque fonds.
- 4Droit établi dans une société civile sur la part des membres ayant cessé de faire partie de la société, qui augmente la part des membres restants.
- 5Augmentation du volume de bois ou de la surface terrière d’un peuplement du fait de la croissance naturelle des arbres.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accorissement,accriossement,accroisement,accroisesment,accroisseemnt,accroissemennt,accroissementt,accroissemetn,accroissemment,accroissemnet,accroissmeent,accrosisement,accrroissement,acrcoissement,acroissement,cacroissement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for accroissement
Misspelling Variants of "accroissement"
Frequency rank: #10,625 in French
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Nearby French words
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