acharnement
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,295
in French word usage
Misspellings
17
tracked variants
Confusables
1
similar word pairs
acharnement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’un animal qui s’attache opiniâtrement à sa proie. Pronounced \a.ʃaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\. Often confused with acharnent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acharnement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʃaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #12,295 |
| Misspellings tracked | 17 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for acharnement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʃaʁ.nə.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,295 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 17 documented wrong-spelling variants for acharnement, with forms such as "acahrnement", "accharnement", and "achanrement". 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 also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "acharnent", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 acharnement, spelled A-C-H-A-R-N-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’un animal qui s’attache opiniâtrement à sa proie.
- 2Fureur opiniâtre avec laquelle des animaux, ou des hommes, se battent les uns contre les autres.
- 3Animosité opiniâtre qu’on a contre quelqu’un.
- 4Opiniâtreté.
- 5Éreintage.
Synonyms
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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
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acharnement
Misspelling Variants of "acharnement"
Frequency rank: #12,295 in French
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Nearby French words
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