acrobatie
\a.kʁɔ.ba.si\
The verdict
“acrobatie” is uncommon French (frequency #57,055 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,055
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exercice d’acrobate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acrobatie · acrobatie · French
acrobatie · rank #57,055 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,055
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acceptèrent
Nearest frequency peer: acceptèrent (-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 « acrobatie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- absenté
absenté
42,949 corpus weight
- Abélard
Abélard
42,948 corpus weight
- acceptèrent
acceptèrent
42,947 corpus weight
- acrobatie
acrobatie
42,946 corpus weight
- adaptabilité
adaptabilité
42,945 corpus weight
- adducteur
adducteur
42,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acrobatie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acrobatie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kʁɔ.ba.si\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #57,055 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acrobatie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acrobatie is uncommon French at frequency #57,055 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kʁɔ.ba.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for acrobatie, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is acrobatie, spelled A-C-R-O-B-A-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Exercice d’acrobate.
- 2Manœuvre physique anormale ou dangereuse.
- 3Exercice intellectuel, qui peut être amusant, mais qui ressemble plus à un tour de bateleur pour amuser la foule, qu'à un véritable travail sérieux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acrobatie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La situation était compliquée et comique, et Achmet, d'une gaieté folle et contagieuse; je cédai au besoin impérieux de faire une acrobatie, et, sautant sur les mains sans préambule, j'exécutai deux tours de clown devant l'assistance ahurie.
Il y avait là une «roue allemande», une grande roue d'acier dans laquelle on pouvait se tenir debout et tourner en exécutant toutes sortes de figures; j'y faisais des numéros d’acrobatie.
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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