achoppement
\a.ʃɔp.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“achoppement” is uncommon French (frequency #59,050 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,050
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action de heurter du pied en marchant, de trébucher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-achoppement · achoppement · French
achoppement · rank #59,050 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,050
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accréditée
Nearest frequency peer: accréditée (-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 « achoppement »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accolée
accolée
40,954 corpus weight
- accotement
accotement
40,953 corpus weight
- accréditée
accréditée
40,952 corpus weight
- achoppement
achoppement
40,951 corpus weight
- Addams
Addams
40,950 corpus weight
- addictive
addictive
40,949 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « achoppement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achoppement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ʃɔp.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #59,050 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « achoppement » en français
Rare enough to double-check
achoppement is uncommon French at frequency #59,050 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ʃɔp.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for achoppement in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 achoppement, spelled A-C-H-O-P-P-E-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Action de heurter du pied en marchant, de trébucher.
- 2« La vraie difficulté, le point d’achoppement des négociations, c’est l'Éducation nationale » — (Michel Houellebecq, Soumission, page 81)
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how achoppement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'achoppement sur les dalles parisiennes rappelle les "achoppements" passés du narrateur dans sa quête, en même temps qu'il fait ressurgir Venise.
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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