achard
\a.ʃaʁ\
The verdict
“achard” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #45,980. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #45,980
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Confit vinaigré de bambou ou de chou palmiste avec du safran.
Corpus desk
Index FR-achard · achard · French
achard · rank #45,980 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,980
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accidentelles
Nearest frequency peer: accidentelles (-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 « achard »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- academia
academia
54,023 corpus weight
- accidentell…
accidentelles
54,022 corpus weight
- achard
achard
54,021 corpus weight
- achevant
achevant
54,020 corpus weight
- acs
acs
54,019 corpus weight
- admirant
admirant
54,018 corpus weight
What this shows « achard » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achard |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʃaʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #45,980 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « achard »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around achard (IPA \a.ʃaʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #45,980 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for achard, with forms such as "acahrd", "acchard", and "achadr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Achat", "award", "achats", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is achard, spelled A-C-H-A-R-D.
Definition
- 1Confit vinaigré de bambou ou de chou palmiste avec du safran.
- 2Assaisonnement composé de légumes, fruits, etc. marinés ou confits dans du vinaigre, du sel, ou du citron mêlé de piment, safran, etc., et préparés aux Indes Orientales.
- 3Conserves pour un navire, marinade.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how achard appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On trouvait aussi chez elles des mangues vertes, […]. Cela et d’autres choses encore : des cakes à la coco ; des bonbons piments, purée de haricots blancs agrémentée de safran et de piments verts; du pain tartiné d’achards, légumes mijotés dans une sauce au safran, aux oignons et aux piments verts.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acahrd
- acchard
- achadr
- achardd
- acharrd
- achhard
- achrad
- ahcard
- cahard
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of achard - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).