accroissement

/\ak.ʁwas.mɑ̃\/ noun

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.

Key facts for accroissement
PropertyValue
Headwordaccroissement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ak.ʁwas.mɑ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#10,625
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

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

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Action de croître, de se développer.
  2. 2
    L’augmentation que reçoit la personne ou l’objet qui s’accroît.
  3. 3
    Droit par lequel une chose accroît à quelque personne ou à quelque fonds.
  4. 4
    Droit 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.
  5. 5
    Augmentation du volume de bois ou de la surface terrière d’un peuplement du fait de la croissance naturelle des arbres.

Synonyms

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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"

accorissement13accriossement13accroisement12accroisesment13accroisseemnt13accroissemennt14accroissementt14accroissemetn13
Misspelling Variants of "accroissement"

Frequency rank: #10,625 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accroissement"?
"accroissement" is spelled A-C-C-R-O-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \ak.ʁwas.mɑ̃\.
What does "accroissement" mean?
As a noun, "accroissement" means: Action de croître, de se développer.
What words are commonly confused with "accroissement"?
"accroissement" is commonly confused with "accroissent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accroissement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accroissement" is \ak.ʁwas.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accroissement" come from?
"accroissement" 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.