accrut
\a.kʁy\
The verdict
“accrut” is uncommon French (frequency #73,676 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,676
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de accroître (ou accroitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-accrut · accrut · French
accrut · rank #73,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,676
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH achalandé
Nearest frequency peer: achalandé (+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 « accrut »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 5th
5th
26,328 corpus weight
- accrut
accrut
26,325 corpus weight
- achalandé
achalandé
26,324 corpus weight
- addendum
addendum
26,323 corpus weight
- adl
adl
26,322 corpus weight
- admiratrices
admiratrices
26,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accrut » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accrut |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.kʁy\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #73,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accrut » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accrut is uncommon French at frequency #73,676 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.kʁy\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de accroître (ou accroitre).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for accrut, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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. The correct French form is accrut, spelled A-C-C-R-U-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de accroître (ou accroitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accrut appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le retour inespéré de Montmartin qui parut en cet instant dans la cour du château, et ordonna de décaparaçonner son cheval, confirma et accrut l’espérance de Charles.
Autrefois, nos écorces se vendaient à vil prix, et nos cuirs n’avaient pas une grande valeur ; mais nos écorces et nos cuirs, une fois bonifiés, la rivière nous permit de construire des moulins à tan, il nous vint des tanneurs dont le commerce s’accrut rapidement.
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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