achalandé
\a.ʃa.lɑ̃.de\
The verdict
“achalandé” is uncommon French (frequency #73,677 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,677
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a beaucoup de clients, de chalands, en parlant d’un magasin, mais aussi, par métonymie d’un marchand.
Corpus desk
Index FR-achalande · achalandé · French
achalandé · rank #73,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,677
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accrut
Nearest frequency peer: accrut (-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 « achalandé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 5th
5th
26,328 corpus weight
- accrut
accrut
26,325 corpus weight
- achalandé
achalandé
26,324 corpus weight
- addendum
addendum
26,323 corpus weight
- adl
adl
26,322 corpus weight
- admiratrices
admiratrices
26,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « achalandé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achalandé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ʃa.lɑ̃.de\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « achalandé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
achalandé is uncommon French at frequency #73,677 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ʃa.lɑ̃.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for achalandé in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is achalandé, spelled A-C-H-A-L-A-N-D-É.
Definition
- 1Qui a beaucoup de clients, de chalands, en parlant d’un magasin, mais aussi, par métonymie d’un marchand.
- 2Qualifie un lieu passant.
- 3Qui offre un grand choix de produits ; bien approvisionné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how achalandé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a des artisans bien plus achalandés les uns que les autres, plus forts et plus adroits, et qui gagnent par conséquent davantage.
Et Camille, elle aussi, bien qu’elle fût désignée naturellement comme une des vendeuses les plus achalandées, s’était obstinée à son ordinaire toilette, une robe sombre, couleur carmélite, si peu jeune fille, sa toilette de vieille femme, comme elle la nommait elle-même avec son rire aigu.
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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