accumulateur

\a.ky.my.la.tœʁ\

/\a.ky.my.la.tœʁ\/ noun

The verdict

“accumulateur” is uncommon French (frequency #51,851 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,851
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui accumule.

Corpus desk

Index FR-accumulateur · accumulateur · French

accumulateur · rank #51,851 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,851
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH acculturation

Nearest frequency peer: acculturation (-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 « accumulateur »

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 « accumulateur » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for accumulateur
PropertyValue
Headwordaccumulateur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ky.my.la.tœʁ\
Letters12
Frequency rank#51,851
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « accumulateur » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).accumulateurtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « acculturation » (#51,850), « accusera » (#51,852), « acclimater » (#51,848). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accumulateur » est au #51,851. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

accumulateur is uncommon French at frequency #51,851 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ky.my.la.tœʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for accumulateur, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is accumulateur, spelled A-C-C-U-M-U-L-A-T-E-U-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Celui qui accumule.
  2. 2
    Appareil servant à emmagasiner l’énergie électrique.
  3. 3
    Réservoir d’eau sous grande pression, qui restitue le travail mécanique accumulé en quelque sorte pour produire sa compression.
  4. 4
    Registre d’un processeur dans lequel le résultat des calculs s’accumule.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un grand accumulateur d’écus, de vivres, etc.
  2. Au total, Edme Berteaux est à la fois un accumulateur de biens-fonds mais aussi un rassembleur de terres.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "accumulateur"?
"accumulateur" is spelled A-C-C-U-M-U-L-A-T-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ky.my.la.tœʁ\.
What does "accumulateur" mean?
As a noun, "accumulateur" means: Celui qui accumule.
How do you pronounce "accumulateur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accumulateur" is \a.ky.my.la.tœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list