acharnement

\a.ʃaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\

/\a.ʃaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“acharnement” has 17 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #12,295. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#12,295
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
17
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’un animal qui s’attache opiniâtrement à sa proie.

Corpus desk

Index FR-acharnement · acharnement · French

acharnement · rank #12,295 · 17 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #12,295
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 17 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH affectée

Nearest frequency peer: affectée (+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 « acharnement »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « acharnement » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

acharnement vs acharnent
82% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for acharnement
PropertyValue
Headwordacharnement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ʃaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#12,295
Misspellings tracked17
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acharnement »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).acharnementse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « affectée » (#12,296), « agressive » (#12,297), « agressivité » (#12,298). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « acharnement » est au #12,295. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 17 spelling variants around acharnement (IPA \a.ʃaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #12,295 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 17 likely wrong-spelling variants for acharnement, with forms such as "acahrnement", "accharnement", and "achanrement". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "acharnent", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is acharnement, spelled A-C-H-A-R-N-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’un animal qui s’attache opiniâtrement à sa proie.
  2. 2
    Fureur opiniâtre avec laquelle des animaux, ou des hommes, se battent les uns contre les autres.
  3. 3
    Animosité opiniâtre qu’on a contre quelqu’un.
  4. 4
    Opiniâtreté.
  5. 5
    Éreintage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’acharnement d’un loup, d’un animal carnassier.
  2. Un jeune bouledogue, entre autres, se distinguait par son acharnement ; cramponné par les crocs à l’échine de l’ours, … il ne lâchait point.

Synonyms

persévérance

This word in other languages

stubbornness(English)escarnio(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acahrnement
  • accharnement
  • achanrement
  • acharenment
  • acharneemnt
  • acharnemennt
  • acharnementt
  • acharnemetn
  • acharnemment
  • acharnemnet
  • acharnmeent
  • acharnnement
  • acharrnement
  • achharnement
  • achranement
  • ahcarnement
  • caharnement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acharnement - 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.

acahrnement2accharnement1achanrement2acharenment2acharneemnt2acharnemennt1acharnementt1acharnemetn2
Edit distance from "acharnement"

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 "acharnement"?
"acharnement" is spelled A-C-H-A-R-N-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʃaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\.
What does "acharnement" mean?
As a noun, "acharnement" means: Action d’un animal qui s’attache opiniâtrement à sa proie.
What words are commonly confused with "acharnement"?
"acharnement" is commonly confused with "acharnent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "acharnement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acharnement" is \a.ʃaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acharnement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

agressivité#12,298synthétique#12,263respectable#12,238présomption#12,228

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (17 here; floor ≥5).

compétents17 variantsentraîneurs17 variantsexpéditions17 variantsmiséricorde17 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list