acquise

\a.kiz\

/\a.kiz\/ adj

The verdict

“acquise” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,779. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#7,779
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de acquis.

Corpus desk

Index FR-acquise · acquise · French

acquise · rank #7,779 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #7,779
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accélérer

Nearest frequency peer: accélérer (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « acquise »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « acquise » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

acquise vs acuité
57% similar
acquise vs acquit
71% similar
acquise vs acquises
88% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for acquise
PropertyValue
Headwordacquise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.kiz\
Letters7
Frequency rank#7,779
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acquise »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).acquisese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accélérer » (#7,778), « ados » (#7,780), « aboutir » (#7,777). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « acquise » est au #7,779. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around acquise (IPA \a.kiz\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,779 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de acquis.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for acquise, with forms such as "accquise", "acqiuse", and "acqquise". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "acuité", "acquit", "acquises", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is acquise, spelled A-C-Q-U-I-S-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de acquis.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accquise
  • acqiuse
  • acqquise
  • acquies
  • acquisse
  • acqusie
  • acuqise
  • aqcuise
  • caquise

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acquise - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

accquise1acqiuse2acqquise1acquies2acquisse1acqusie2acuqise2aqcuise2
Edit distance from "acquise"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acquise"?
"acquise" is spelled A-C-Q-U-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kiz\.
What does "acquise" mean?
As an adjective, "acquise" means: Féminin singulier de acquis.
What words are commonly confused with "acquise"?
"acquise" is commonly confused with "acuité", "acquit", "acquises". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "acquise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acquise" is \a.kiz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acquise" come from?
"acquise" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "acquise", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list