acquittement

\a.kit.mɑ̃\

/\a.kit.mɑ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“acquittement” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,744. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#23,744
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
16
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’acquitter, en parlant de dettes ou d’engagements.

Corpus desk

Index FR-acquittement · acquittement · French

acquittement · rank #23,744 · 16 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #23,744
  • LEN-MEGA 12 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 16 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH accros

Nearest frequency peer: accros (-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 « acquittement »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « acquittement » 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
Key facts for acquittement
PropertyValue
Headwordacquittement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.kit.mɑ̃\
Letters12
Frequency rank#23,744
Misspellings tracked16
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acquittement »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).acquittementse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « accros » (#23,743), « administrée » (#23,745), « abdos » (#23,742). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « acquittement » est au #23,744. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 16 spelling variants around acquittement (IPA \a.kit.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #23,744 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for acquittement, with forms such as "accquittement", "acqiuttement", and "acqquittement". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is acquittement, spelled A-C-Q-U-I-T-T-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’acquitter, en parlant de dettes ou d’engagements.
  2. 2
    Renvoi d’un accusé déclaré non coupable.
  3. 3
    Confirmation, par l’utilisateur d’une machine, qu’il a vu et pris en compte un signal ou un message de la machine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how acquittement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Vous aurez là un ensemble … d’une poésie toute Moyen-Âge, quoique le monument n’ait été construit qu’en 1602 en acquittement d’un vœu fait quatre ans auparavant à propos de je ne sais quelle épidémie.
  2. L’acquittement, l’entier acquittement des dettes, des frais d’une succession.

This word in other languages

acquittal(English)absolución(Español)Absolution(Deutsch)absolvição(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accquittement
  • acqiuttement
  • acqquittement
  • acquitement
  • acquitetment
  • acquitteemnt
  • acquittemennt
  • acquittementt
  • acquittemetn
  • acquittemment
  • acquittemnet
  • acquittmeent
  • acqutitement
  • acuqittement
  • aqcuittement
  • caquittement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acquittement - 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.

accquittement1acqiuttement2acqquittement1acquitement1acquitetment2acquitteemnt2acquittemennt1acquittementt1
Edit distance from "acquittement"

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 "acquittement"?
"acquittement" is spelled A-C-Q-U-I-T-T-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.kit.mɑ̃\.
What does "acquittement" mean?
As a noun, "acquittement" means: Action d’acquitter, en parlant de dettes ou d’engagements.
What are common misspellings of "acquittement"?
Common misspellings include "accquittement", "acqiuttement", "acqquittement", "acquitement", "acquitetment". The correct spelling is "acquittement".
How do you pronounce "acquittement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acquittement" is \a.kit.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acquittement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list