accrut

\a.kʁy\

/\a.kʁy\/ verb

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for accrut
PropertyValue
Headwordaccrut
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.kʁy\
Letters6
Frequency rank#73,676
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « accrut » en français

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « achalandé » (#73,677), « addendum » (#73,678), « 5th » (#73,673). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accrut » est au #73,676. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de accroître (ou accroitre).

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. 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.
  2. 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accrut"?
"accrut" is spelled A-C-C-R-U-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kʁy\.
What does "accrut" mean?
As a verb, "accrut" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de accroître (ou accroitre).
How do you pronounce "accrut"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accrut" is \a.kʁy\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accrut" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list