accumulation

\a.ky.my.la.sjɔ̃\

/\a.ky.my.la.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“accumulation” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,951. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,951
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’accumuler, en parlant des choses physiques et les choses morales.

Corpus desk

Index FR-accumulation · accumulation · French

accumulation · rank #8,951 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,951
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Abraham

Nearest frequency peer: Abraham (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « accumulation »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « accumulation » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

accumulation vs accumulations
92% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for accumulation
PropertyValue
Headwordaccumulation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ky.my.la.sjɔ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#8,951
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « accumulation »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).accumulationse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Abraham » (#8,950), « électorales » (#8,949), « achever » (#8,953). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « accumulation » est au #8,951. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around accumulation (IPA \a.ky.my.la.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,951 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for accumulation, with forms such as "accmuulation", "accumluation", and "accummulation". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "accumulations", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is accumulation, spelled A-C-C-U-M-U-L-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’accumuler, en parlant des choses physiques et les choses morales.
  2. 2
    Cette action, appliquée à la chaleur issue de l’effet Joule.
  3. 3
    Résultat de cette action.
  4. 4
    Action d’amasser des capitaux qui seront réinvestis.
  5. 5
    Figure de rhétorique qui se traduit par une énumération d’un grand nombre de détails qui développent l’idée principale, qui appartiennent à une même catégorie et qui crée un effet de profusion.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Stephen Quemper est suspendu pour une accumulation de jaunes la saison passée.
  2. Aussi les taudis marseillais sont innombrables et recèlent des accumulations incroyables, des promiscuités qui ravalent l’espèce humaine au niveau de l’animalité!

This word in other languages

accumulation(English)acumulación(Español)Anhäufung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accmuulation
  • accumluation
  • accummulation
  • accumualtion
  • accumulaiton
  • accumulatino
  • accumulationn
  • accumulatoin
  • accumulattion
  • accumullation
  • accumultaion
  • accuumlation
  • acucmulation
  • acumulation
  • cacumulation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of accumulation - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

accmuulation2accumluation2accummulation1accumualtion2accumulaiton2accumulatino2accumulationn1accumulatoin2
Edit distance from "accumulation"

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 "accumulation"?
"accumulation" is spelled A-C-C-U-M-U-L-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ky.my.la.sjɔ̃\.
What does "accumulation" mean?
As a noun, "accumulation" means: Action d’accumuler, en parlant des choses physiques et les choses morales.
What words are commonly confused with "accumulation"?
"accumulation" is commonly confused with "accumulations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "accumulation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "accumulation" is \a.ky.my.la.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "accumulation" come from?
"accumulation" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

touristiques#8,938soudainement#8,928significatif#8,926préliminaire#8,911

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

citoyenneté15 variantscérémonies15 variantsPhilippines15 variantsfragments15 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list