acosta
\aˈkos.ta\
The verdict
“acosta” is uncommon French (frequency #54,376 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,376
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de acostar.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acosta · acosta · French
acosta · rank #54,376 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,376
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acomptes
Nearest frequency peer: acomptes (-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 « acosta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accoste
accoste
45,628 corpus weight
- achèteront
achèteront
45,627 corpus weight
- acomptes
acomptes
45,626 corpus weight
- acosta
acosta
45,625 corpus weight
- adhésifs
adhésifs
45,624 corpus weight
- adjuvants
adjuvants
45,623 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acosta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acosta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \aˈkos.ta\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #54,376 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acosta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acosta is uncommon French at frequency #54,376 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \aˈkos.ta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for acosta in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is acosta, spelled A-C-O-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du présent de l’indicatif de acostar.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier (tú) de l’impératif de acostar.
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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