achigan
\a.ʃi.ɡɑ̃\
The verdict
“achigan” is uncommon French (frequency #88,272 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,272
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poisson du genre Micropterus (famille des Centrarchidae). On distingue l’achigan à petite bouche et l’achigan à grande bouche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-achigan · achigan · French
achigan · rank #88,272 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,272
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ACB
Nearest frequency peer: ACB (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « achigan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abrita
abrita
11,731 corpus weight
- ACB
ACB
11,730 corpus weight
- achigan
achigan
11,729 corpus weight
- acquirent
acquirent
11,728 corpus weight
- actionneurs
actionneurs
11,727 corpus weight
- Adamson
Adamson
11,726 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « achigan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achigan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʃi.ɡɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,272 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « achigan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
achigan is uncommon French at frequency #88,272 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʃi.ɡɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poisson du genre Micropterus (famille des Centrarchidae). On distingue l’achigan à petite bouche et l’achigan à grande bouche.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for achigan, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is achigan, spelled A-C-H-I-G-A-N.
Definition
- 1Poisson du genre Micropterus (famille des Centrarchidae). On distingue l’achigan à petite bouche et l’achigan à grande bouche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how achigan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le passage de l'achigan en amont des barrages peut cependant très bien s'expliquer.
L’achigan est présent, pour sa part, dans le sud de ce territoire structuré, au grand plaisir des amateurs de sensations fortes.
This word in other languages
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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