acropolis
\a.kʁɔ.pɔ.lis\
The verdict
“acropolis” is uncommon French (frequency #72,043 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,043
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de acropole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acropolis · acropolis · French
acropolis · rank #72,043 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,043
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accu
Nearest frequency peer: accu (-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 « acropolis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- académisme
académisme
27,961 corpus weight
- accidentées
accidentées
27,960 corpus weight
- accu
accu
27,959 corpus weight
- acropolis
acropolis
27,958 corpus weight
- actionnés
actionnés
27,957 corpus weight
- actualisés
actualisés
27,956 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acropolis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acropolis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.kʁɔ.pɔ.lis\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,043 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acropolis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acropolis is uncommon French at frequency #72,043 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.kʁɔ.pɔ.lis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de acropole.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for acropolis in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is acropolis, spelled A-C-R-O-P-O-L-I-S.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de acropole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how acropolis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Deux montagnes ressemblaient assez par leur coupe aux acropolis de Corinthe, d’Athènes et de Pergame…
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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