acquiesça
\a.kje.sa\
The verdict
“acquiesça” is uncommon French (frequency #72,881 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,881
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe acquiescer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acquiesca · acquiesça · French
acquiesça · rank #72,881 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,881
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acquittées
Nearest frequency peer: acquittées (+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 « acquiesça »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accouplemen…
accouplements
27,123 corpus weight
- acculée
acculée
27,122 corpus weight
- acquiesça
acquiesça
27,120 corpus weight
- acquittées
acquittées
27,119 corpus weight
- acérés
acérés
27,118 corpus weight
- addictives
addictives
27,117 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acquiesça » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acquiesça |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.kje.sa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,881 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acquiesça » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acquiesça is uncommon French at frequency #72,881 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.kje.sa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe acquiescer.".
No misspelling variants are generated for acquiesça in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is acquiesça, spelled A-C-Q-U-I-E-S-Ç-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe acquiescer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acquiesça appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Hassan acquiesça, cette conversation enfonçait un coin dans son classement en DPS.
Paul acquiesça. Si tel était le souhait de son cadet, Paul le suivrait sans hésiter. Il n’avait plus rien à perdre, à l’exception d’un bordel laissé à la garde d’une vieille putain. Son frère était tout ce qui lui restait.
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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