accusé de réception
\a.ky.ze də ʁe.sɛp.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“accusé de réception” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 19
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) — Message ou un signal émis de manière standardisée, et parfois automatique, afin d’informer un expéditeur que ce qu’il a envoyé a bien été reçu, sous forme matérialisée ou dématérialisée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | accusé de réception |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ky.ze də ʁe.sɛp.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 19 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “accusé de réception” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for accusé de réception is 19 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ky.ze də ʁe.sɛp.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for accusé de réception in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is accusé de réception, spelled A-C-C-U-S-É- -D-E- -R-É-C-E-P-T-I-O-N, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Message ou un signal émis de manière standardisée, et parfois automatique, afin d’informer un expéditeur que ce qu’il a envoyé a bien été reçu, sous forme matérialisée ou dématérialisée.
- 2Message, délivré à l’expéditeur d’un envoi postal, signé de la main du destinataire, informant l’expéditeur que son envoi a bien été remis en main propre au destinataire (ou à son mandataire).
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- The one correct French spelling is A-C-C-U-S-É- -D-E- -R-É-C-E-P-T-I-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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