acétate

\a.se.tat\

/\a.se.tat\/ noun

The verdict

“acétate” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,122. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#38,122
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide acétique avec une base.

Corpus desk

Index FR-acetate · acétate · French

acétate · rank #38,122 · 10 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,122
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accélérant

Nearest frequency peer: accélérant (-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 « acétate »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « acétate » 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
Key facts for acétate
PropertyValue
Headwordacétate
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.se.tat\
Letters7
Frequency rank#38,122
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acétate »

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

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accélérant » (#38,121), « affair » (#38,123), « accabler » (#38,120). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « acétate » est au #38,122. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around acétate (IPA \a.se.tat\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,122 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for acétate, with forms such as "accétate", "acetate", and "actéate". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. 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 its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is acétate, spelled A-C-É-T-A-T-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide acétique avec une base.
  2. 2
    Acétocellulose, textile artificiel découvert en 1919 et fabriqué à partir de cellulose. Il est léger, soyeux, sèche rapidement et assure une bonne isolation thermique.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Acétate d’ammonium, de cuivre, de mercure, de morphine, de plomb, de potassium, de sodium, etc.
  2. Une fois attrapés, les insectes chéris […] sont étouffés dans un pot d'acétate d'éthyle, où ils trouveront la mort. C’est ainsi que naissent les collections; car si les insectes sont cruels, les humains le sont aussi.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accétate
  • acetate
  • actéate
  • acéatte
  • acétaet
  • acétatte
  • acéttae
  • acéttate
  • aéctate
  • caétate

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acétate - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

accétate1acetate1actéate2acéatte2acétaet2acétatte1acéttae2acéttate1
Edit distance from "acétate"

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 "acétate"?
"acétate" is spelled A-C-É-T-A-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.se.tat\.
What does "acétate" mean?
As a noun, "acétate" means: Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide acétique avec une base.
What are common misspellings of "acétate"?
Common misspellings include "accétate", "acetate", "actéate", "acéatte", "acétaet". The correct spelling is "acétate".
How do you pronounce "acétate"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acétate" is \a.se.tat\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acétate" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list