accusatoire
\a.ky.za.twaʁ\
The verdict
“accusatoire” is uncommon French (frequency #97,616 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,616
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualifie la procédure pénale appliquée dans les pays anglo-saxons, dans laquelle ce sont les parties et non les représentants de la société qui mènent le procès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-accusatoire · accusatoire · French
accusatoire · rank #97,616 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,616
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accoutrements
Nearest frequency peer: accoutrements (-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 « accusatoire »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accoutremen…
accoutrements
2,386 corpus weight
- accusatoire
accusatoire
2,385 corpus weight
- accusatrices
accusatrices
2,384 corpus weight
- accusèrent
accusèrent
2,383 corpus weight
- Achéron
Achéron
2,382 corpus weight
- actuariat
actuariat
2,381 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « accusatoire » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accusatoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ky.za.twaʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #97,616 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « accusatoire » en français
Rare enough to double-check
accusatoire is uncommon French at frequency #97,616 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ky.za.twaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for accusatoire, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 accusatoire, spelled A-C-C-U-S-A-T-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qualifie la procédure pénale appliquée dans les pays anglo-saxons, dans laquelle ce sont les parties et non les représentants de la société qui mènent le procès.
- 2Accusateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how accusatoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Système, procédure accusatoire.
On envisagera successivement les grands types procéduraux que l'histoire a consacrés : procédure accusatoire, procédure inquisitoire et procédure mixte.
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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