acerbité
\a.sɛʁ.bi.te\
The verdict
“acerbité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est acerbe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acerbite · acerbité · French
acerbité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acerbité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sɛʁ.bi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acerbité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acerbité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sɛʁ.bi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qualité de ce qui est acerbe.".
acerbité doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is acerbité, spelled A-C-E-R-B-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est acerbe.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acerbité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il semble même, par l'exemple des fruits des diospyros, du sorbier et du néflier, qu'on ne peut manger que blets, que plus l’acerbité a été grande, plus le fruit est susceptible de blessir régulièrement.
Deux moyens en général détruisent l’acerbité : la décoction et l'altération spontanée. Le coin perd son acerbité par la décoction , ou du moins n'en conserve pas assez pour être désagréable ; […].
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.