acrobate
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#41,626
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
acrobate is aFrenchnoun. It means: Artiste de cirque, danseur, (ou danseuse) de corde qui exécute des tours d’agilité devant un public populaire. Pronounced \a.kʁɔ.bat\. Often confused with acrobates and acrobaties.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acrobate |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kʁɔ.bat\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #41,626 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for acrobate is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.kʁɔ.bat\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,626 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for acrobate, with forms such as "accrobate", "acorbate", and "acrboate". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "acrobates", "acrobaties", 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 acrobate, spelled A-C-R-O-B-A-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Artiste de cirque, danseur, (ou danseuse) de corde qui exécute des tours d’agilité devant un public populaire.
- 2Illusionniste, imposteur, demi-savant suffisant, plein d’assurance ou de mépris pour les spécialistes confirmés.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accrobate,acorbate,acrboate,acroabte,acrobaet,acrobatte,acrobbate,acrobtae,acrrobate,arcobate,carobate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acrobate
Misspelling Variants of "acrobate"
Frequency rank: #41,626 in French
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