acharnent

\a.ʃaʁn\

/\a.ʃaʁn\/ verb

The verdict

“acharnent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,555. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#46,555
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
14
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe acharner.

Corpus desk

Index FR-acharnent · acharnent · French

acharnent · rank #46,555 · 14 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #46,555
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 14 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accélérateurs

Nearest frequency peer: accélérateurs (-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 « acharnent »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « acharnent » 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).

acharnent vs acharner
78% similar
acharnent vs acharne
78% similar
acharnent vs acharnée
67% similar

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

Key facts for acharnent
PropertyValue
Headwordacharnent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.ʃaʁn\
Letters9
Frequency rank#46,555
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acharnent »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).acharnentse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accélérateurs » (#46,554), « acidification » (#46,556), « absolutisme » (#46,553). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « acharnent » est au #46,555. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 14 spelling variants around acharnent (IPA \a.ʃaʁn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #46,555 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for acharnent, with forms such as "acahrnent", "accharnent", and "achanrent". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "acharner", "acharne", "acharnée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is acharnent, spelled A-C-H-A-R-N-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe acharner.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe acharner.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • acahrnent
  • accharnent
  • achanrent
  • acharennt
  • acharnennt
  • acharnentt
  • acharnetn
  • acharnnent
  • acharnnet
  • acharrnent
  • achharnent
  • achranent
  • ahcarnent
  • caharnent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acharnent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

acahrnent2accharnent1achanrent2acharennt2acharnennt1acharnentt1acharnetn2acharnnent1
Edit distance from "acharnent"

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 "acharnent"?
"acharnent" is spelled A-C-H-A-R-N-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʃaʁn\.
What does "acharnent" mean?
As a verb, "acharnent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe acharner.
What words are commonly confused with "acharnent"?
"acharnent" is commonly confused with "acharner", "acharne", "acharnée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "acharnent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acharnent" is \a.ʃaʁn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acharnent" come from?
"acharnent" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list