accroupis

\a.kʁu.pi\

/\a.kʁu.pi\/ adj

The verdict

“accroupis” is uncommon French (frequency #66,466 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#66,466
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de accroupi.

Corpus desk

Index FR-accroupis · accroupis · French

accroupis · rank #66,466 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #66,466
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accroire

Nearest frequency peer: accroire (-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 « accroupis »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accroupis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for accroupis
PropertyValue
Headwordaccroupis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.kʁu.pi\
Letters9
Frequency rank#66,466
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « accroupis » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).accroupistombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « accroire » (#66,465), « achievement » (#66,467), « accostage » (#66,464). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accroupis » est au #66,466. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

accroupis is uncommon French at frequency #66,466 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.kʁu.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de accroupi.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for accroupis, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is accroupis, spelled A-C-C-R-O-U-P-I-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin pluriel de accroupi.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how accroupis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Mes parents ne possédaient que quinze hectares mais, accroupis ou à genoux, en se relevant tout doucement à intervalles réguliers pour se décasser les reins et les genoux, sous une journée de juillet, quinze hectares, c’est long comme le Groenland, de bas en haut, de long en large ; ça n’en finit pas d’être long.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accroupis"?
"accroupis" is spelled A-C-C-R-O-U-P-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kʁu.pi\.
What does "accroupis" mean?
As an adjective, "accroupis" means: Masculin pluriel de accroupi.
How do you pronounce "accroupis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accroupis" is \a.kʁu.pi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accroupis" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "accroupis", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list