accroupir
\a.kʁu.piʁ\
The verdict
“accroupir” is uncommon French (frequency #79,013 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,013
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Se tenir comme assis sur ses talons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accroupir · accroupir · French
accroupir · rank #79,013 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,013
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH absolut
Nearest frequency peer: absolut (-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 « accroupir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- absolut
absolut
20,989 corpus weight
- accroupir
accroupir
20,988 corpus weight
- ACV
ACV
20,987 corpus weight
- Adan
Adan
20,986 corpus weight
- adonnait
adonnait
20,985 corpus weight
- Adriatico
Adriatico
20,984 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accroupir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accroupir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.kʁu.piʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #79,013 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accroupir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accroupir is uncommon French at frequency #79,013 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.kʁu.piʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for accroupir in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is accroupir, spelled A-C-C-R-O-U-P-I-R.
Definition
- 1Se tenir comme assis sur ses talons.
- 2Croupir, s’avilir, s’abaisser.
- 3Faire s’accroupir quelqu’un ou un animal.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accroupir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De la petite chambre où j’étais enfermé avec ma bonne, le front contre la vitre, à travers les persiennes fermées, je regardais des pauvresses s’accroupir sur la pelouse, un cierge à la main, et marmotter des oraisons.
À la tombée de la nuit, six hommes de garde envoyés par le caïd sont venus s'accroupir autour de notre petit campement pour veiller à notre sécurité.
This word in other languages
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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