acquiescer
\a.kjɛ.se\
The verdict
“acquiescer” is uncommon French (frequency #53,103 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,103
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Signaler son accord ; répondre que l’on accepte la proposition de l’autre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acquiescer · acquiescer · French
acquiescer · rank #53,103 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,103
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH achevez
Nearest frequency peer: achevez (-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 « acquiescer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accrocs
accrocs
46,901 corpus weight
- accroissant
accroissant
46,900 corpus weight
- achevez
achevez
46,899 corpus weight
- acquiescer
acquiescer
46,898 corpus weight
- acrobatiques
acrobatiques
46,897 corpus weight
- address
address
46,896 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acquiescer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acquiescer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.kjɛ.se\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acquiescer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acquiescer is uncommon French at frequency #53,103 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.kjɛ.se\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Signaler son accord ; répondre que l’on accepte la proposition de l’autre.".
acquiescer doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is acquiescer, spelled A-C-Q-U-I-E-S-C-E-R.
Definition
- 1Signaler son accord ; répondre que l’on accepte la proposition de l’autre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acquiescer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le prêtre se tourna alors vers Martin Bushart pour tâcher de le convaincre et de le faire acquiescer à ses propositions.
Le proviseur adjoint l’écoute poliment et acquiesce à ses suggestions, le valorise et lui donne de l’importance. Je ne sais pas s’il est sincère.
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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