acculés
\a.ky.le\
The verdict
“acculés” is uncommon French (frequency #65,659 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,659
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de acculé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accules · acculés · French
acculés · rank #65,659 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,659
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adda
Nearest frequency peer: adda (+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 « acculés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accouchent
accouchent
34,345 corpus weight
- accourt
accourt
34,344 corpus weight
- acculés
acculés
34,342 corpus weight
- adda
adda
34,341 corpus weight
- adsorption
adsorption
34,340 corpus weight
- adventices
adventices
34,339 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acculés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acculés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ky.le\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #65,659 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acculés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acculés is uncommon French at frequency #65,659 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ky.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for acculés, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 acculés, spelled A-C-C-U-L-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de acculé.
- 2Se dit d’un ensemble d’un même meuble qui est disposé de façon à ce que les culs soient positionnés les uns vers les autres. Les faces sont donc tournées vers l’extérieur. Dans ce sens, ce mot est toujours pluriel en héraldique. Pour les autres sens, voir acculé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acculés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Filhiol de Camas — Bretagne (Baron de l’Empire, 15 juin 1808) D’azur à deux canons sur leurs affûts d’argent, acculés, accompagnés en chef à dextre d’un vol du même
Bonchaux — Bourgogne D’azur à deux croissants acculés d’argent, accompagnés de quatre besants d’or, 1 en chef, 2 en flancs et 1 en pointe
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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