accroupie
\a.kʁu.pi\
The verdict
“accroupie” is uncommon French (frequency #55,713 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,713
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de accroupi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accroupie · accroupie · French
accroupie · rank #55,713 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,713
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acceptions
Nearest frequency peer: acceptions (-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 « accroupie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Acad
Acad
44,290 corpus weight
- acceptions
acceptions
44,289 corpus weight
- accroupie
accroupie
44,288 corpus weight
- accusateurs
accusateurs
44,287 corpus weight
- acoustic
acoustic
44,286 corpus weight
- adaptatif
adaptatif
44,285 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accroupie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accroupie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.kʁu.pi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,713 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accroupie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accroupie is uncommon French at frequency #55,713 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.kʁu.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de accroupi.".
accroupie has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 accroupie, spelled A-C-C-R-O-U-P-I-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de accroupi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how accroupie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La femme accroupie qui urinait en plein jour derrière un baraquement servant de café, en bordure des ruines, à Yvetot, après la guerre, se renculottait debout, jupe relevée, et s’en retournait au café.
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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