achètent
\a.ʃɛt\
The verdict
“achètent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #10,436. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #10,436
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe acheter.
Corpus desk
Index FR-achetent · achètent · French
achètent · rank #10,436 · 13 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,436
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH act
Nearest frequency peer: act (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “achètent”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- abuser
abuser
89,567 corpus weight
- achètent
achètent
89,565 corpus weight
- act
act
89,564 corpus weight
- actionnaire
actionnaire
89,563 corpus weight
- adverse
adverse
89,562 corpus weight
- affrontement
affrontement
89,561 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “achètent” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | achètent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ʃɛt\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #10,436 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “achètent” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around achètent (IPA \a.ʃɛt\), averb. Corpus frequency is #10,436 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for achètent, with forms such as "acchètent", "achetent", and "achhètent". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "acheter", "achetez", "achètes", 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 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 achètent, spelled A-C-H-È-T-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe acheter.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe acheter.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how achètent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tantôt avec les lassets, tantôt à l’aide de la bourraque, il faisait une petite récolte de ces belles crevettes roses (quand elles sont cuites) et qu’on appelle le bouquet; muni de l’attirail que j’ai décrit plus haut, il se livrait à une guerre acharnée contre toute la légion des crabes, pouparts, claquarts et craparagdis, sans compter les célèbres pieuv…
Entichez ces enfants de votre marque et ils insisteront auprès des parents pour qu’ils l’achètent.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acchètent
- achetent
- achhètent
- achtèent
- achèetnt
- achètennt
- achètentt
- achètetn
- achètnet
- achèttent
- acèhtent
- ahcètent
- cahètent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of achètent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "achètent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "achètent". Here's where to go from here.
- "achètent" maps to 18 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "acheter". View pair
- 13 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #10,436 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.