Acq
\ak\
The verdict
“Acq” is uncommon French (frequency #70,357 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,357
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acq · Acq · French
Acq · rank #70,357 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,357
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aconit
Nearest frequency peer: aconit (-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 « Acq »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- affûts
affûts
29,641 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Acq » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Acq |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ak\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #70,357 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Acq » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Acq is uncommon French at frequency #70,357 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Acq in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Acq, spelled A-C-Q.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Pas-de-Calais.
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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