acculturation
\a.kyl.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“acculturation” is uncommon French (frequency #51,850 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,850
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Changement de la culture d’une population par le contact avec des personnes venant d’ailleurs ou avec d’autres cultures.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acculturation · acculturation · French
acculturation · rank #51,850 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,850
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accumulateur
Nearest frequency peer: accumulateur (+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 « acculturation »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abuses
abuses
48,155 corpus weight
- acacias
acacias
48,154 corpus weight
- acclimater
acclimater
48,153 corpus weight
- acculturati…
acculturation
48,151 corpus weight
- accumulateur
accumulateur
48,150 corpus weight
- accusera
accusera
48,149 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acculturation » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acculturation |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kyl.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #51,850 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acculturation » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acculturation is uncommon French at frequency #51,850 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kyl.ty.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for acculturation in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is acculturation, spelled A-C-C-U-L-T-U-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Changement de la culture d’une population par le contact avec des personnes venant d’ailleurs ou avec d’autres cultures.
- 2Acquisition et transmission aux générations suivantes d’un trait de comportement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acculturation appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les consignes étaient probablement de consolider les positions militaires et de favoriser l'acculturation des peuplades conquises.
L’identité [nationale] est aujourd’hui menacée de toutes parts par de puissants courants mondiaux de standardisation et d’acculturation radicale, et c’est contre ces courants que le printemps érable s’est dressé en bonne partie.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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