accu
\a.ky\
The verdict
“accu” is uncommon French (frequency #72,042 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,042
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accumulateur destiné à fournir de l’électricité.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accu · accu · French
accu · rank #72,042 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,042
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accidentées
Nearest frequency peer: accidentées (-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 « accu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Abydos
Abydos
27,962 corpus weight
- académisme
académisme
27,961 corpus weight
- accidentées
accidentées
27,960 corpus weight
- accu
accu
27,959 corpus weight
- acropolis
acropolis
27,958 corpus weight
- actionnés
actionnés
27,957 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ky\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #72,042 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accu is uncommon French at frequency #72,042 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ky\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
accu doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is accu, spelled A-C-C-U.
Definition
- 1Accumulateur destiné à fournir de l’électricité.
- 2Réserve d'énergie qu’une personne détient en elle-même.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai un chargeur d’accus qui me servait autrefois pour charger mes accus pour appareil de T. S. F.
« N’est-ce pas un peu trop tôt pour publier un nouveau livre ? Vous avez rudement déchargé vos accus pour La Colère. Êtes-vous certain d’avoir eu le temps de le recharger ?… »
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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