acétate

/\a.se.tat\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#38,122

in French word usage

Misspellings

10

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

acétate is aFrenchnoun. It means: Sel produit par la combinaison de l’acide acétique avec une base. Pronounced \a.se.tat\.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of acétate in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for acétate is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.se.tat\. Corpus data places it at rank #38,122 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for acétate, with forms such as "accétate", "acetate", and "actéate". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.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 acétate, spelled A-C-É-T-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: accétate,acetate,actéate,acéatte,acétaet,acétatte,acéttae,acéttate,aéctate,caétate

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acétate

Misspelling Variants of "acétate"

accétate8acetate7actéate7acéatte7acétaet7acétatte8acéttae7acéttate8
Misspelling Variants of "acétate"

Frequency rank: #38,122 in French

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?
"acétate" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.