acies
\ˈa.ki.eːs\
The verdict
“acies” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 5
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tranchant, pointe d'un objet pointu ; pointe de l'épée, fil de l’épée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acies · acies · French
acies · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acies |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈa.ki.eːs\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
acies is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈa.ki.eːs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 8 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for acies in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is acies, spelled A-C-I-E-S.
Definition
- 1Tranchant, pointe d'un objet pointu ; pointe de l'épée, fil de l’épée.
- 2Tranchant, pointe d'un objet pointu ; pointe de l'épée, fil de l’épée.
- 3Vivacité du regard, regard perçant.
- 4Vivacité du regard, regard perçant.
- 5Vivacité du regard, regard perçant.
- 6Pénétration de l'esprit, intelligence ; puissance intellectuelle, puissance morale (synonyme : acumen).
- 7Rang de soldats, ligne de bataille, armée rangée en bataille, flotte rangée en bataille.
- 8Rang de soldats, ligne de bataille, armée rangée en bataille, flotte rangée en bataille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
acies securis
stricta acies
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.