aconit
\a.kɔ.nit\
The verdict
“aconit” is uncommon French (frequency #70,356 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,356
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Plante fort vénéneuse, de la famille des renonculacées ; on l’emploie à petites doses comme remède ; synonyme de aconit napel.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aconit · aconit · French
aconit · rank #70,356 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,356
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Acq
Nearest frequency peer: Acq (+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 « aconit »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acclame
acclame
29,648 corpus weight
- accompagnat…
accompagnatrice
29,647 corpus weight
- aconit
aconit
29,645 corpus weight
- Acq
Acq
29,644 corpus weight
- administrant
administrant
29,643 corpus weight
- affectionne…
affectionnent
29,642 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aconit » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aconit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kɔ.nit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #70,356 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aconit » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aconit is uncommon French at frequency #70,356 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kɔ.nit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Plante fort vénéneuse, de la famille des renonculacées ; on l’emploie à petites doses comme remède ; synonyme de aconit napel.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aconit, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aconit, spelled A-C-O-N-I-T.
Definition
- 1Plante fort vénéneuse, de la famille des renonculacées ; on l’emploie à petites doses comme remède ; synonyme de aconit napel.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aconit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En vertu de ce principe des homœopathes : similia similibus curantur, l’aconit, la stramoine, la jusquiame, seraient capables de susciter cette névrose chez l’homme ou l’animal bien portant, puisqu’ils prétendent la guérir par ces médicaments. C’est ce qui, croyons-nous, est à démontrer.
Les Aconits, les Asphodèles, les grandes Gentianes qui sont la parure de nos pâturages subalpins sont des plantes refusées par le bétail.
Synonyms
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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