acide
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#4,302
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
acide is anFrenchadj. It means: Qualifie une saveur aigre ou piquante. Pronounced \a.sid\. It ranks #4,302 in French word frequency. Often confused with aïe and aid.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adj |
| IPA | \a.sid\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #4,302 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for acide is 5 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sid\. Corpus data places it at rank #4,302 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for acide, with forms such as "accide", "acdie", and "acidde". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "aïe", "aid", "aide", and more, 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 acide, spelled A-C-I-D-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Qualifie une saveur aigre ou piquante.
- 2Qualifie une molécule capable de céder un proton (acide de Brønsted) ou d’accepter un doublet électronique (acide de Lewis).
- 3Qualifie une solution dont le pH est inférieur à 7, c’est-à-dire quand la concentration en protons de la solution est supérieure à 10⁻⁷ moles par litre.
- 4Se dit d’une roche riche en silice (plus de 65 %).
- 5Déplaisant, blessant.
- 6Qualifie une couleur qui agace la vue.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accide,acdie,acidde,acied,aicde,caide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acide
Misspelling Variants of "acide"
Frequency rank: #4,302 in French
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