acquitter
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#15,077
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
acquitter is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre quitte, libérer des dettes. Se dit en parlant des personnes et des choses. Pronounced \a.ki.te\. Often confused with acquitte and acquittée.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acquitter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ki.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #15,077 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for acquitter is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ki.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #15,077 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for acquitter, with forms such as "accquitter", "acqiutter", and "acqquitter". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "acquitte", "acquittée", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is acquitter, spelled A-C-Q-U-I-T-T-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre quitte, libérer des dettes. Se dit en parlant des personnes et des choses.
- 2Payer.
- 3Renvoyer absous d’une accusation.
- 4Confirmer la prise en compte d’un message à un programme.
- 5Satisfaire à une obligation, la remplir.
- 6Également, en termes de jeu, regagner ce qu’on a perdu et rester quitte à quitte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accquitter,acqiutter,acqquitter,acquiter,acquitetr,acquitterr,acquittre,acqutiter,acuqitter,aqcuitter,caquitter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acquitter
Misspelling Variants of "acquitter"
Frequency rank: #15,077 in French
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Nearby French words
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