accueil
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,845
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
accueil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Cérémonie ou prestation réservée à un nouvel arrivant, consistant généralement à lui souhaiter la bienvenue et à l’aider dans son intégration ou ses démarches. Pronounced \a.kœj\. It ranks #1,845 in French word frequency. Often confused with actuel and Arcueil.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accueil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kœj\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,845 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for accueil is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.kœj\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,845 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for accueil, with forms such as "acceuil", "accueill", and "accueli". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "actuel", "Arcueil", "accueille", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is accueil, spelled A-C-C-U-E-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Cérémonie ou prestation réservée à un nouvel arrivant, consistant généralement à lui souhaiter la bienvenue et à l’aider dans son intégration ou ses démarches.
- 2Lieu où sont accueillies les personnes.
- 3Fait d’accueillir ou héberger.
- 4Page d’accès ou d’accueil (lieu ci-dessus) à un site web.
- 5Manière dont une œuvre a été acceptée lors de sa sortie par le public et les critiques.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acceuil,accueill,accueli,accuiel,acuceil,acueil,cacueil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for accueil
Misspelling Variants of "accueil"
Frequency rank: #1,845 in French
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