act
\ækt\
The verdict
“act” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #10,437) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #10,437
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action.
Corpus desk
Index FR-act · act · French
act · rank #10,437 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #10,437
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH achètent
Nearest frequency peer: achètent (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « act »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- abuser
abuser
89,567 corpus weight
- achètent
achètent
89,565 corpus weight
- act
act
89,564 corpus weight
- actionnaire
actionnaire
89,563 corpus weight
- adverse
adverse
89,562 corpus weight
- affrontement
affrontement
89,561 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « act » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | act |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ækt\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #10,437 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « act »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for act is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ækt\. Frequency #10,437 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 6 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for act, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is act, spelled A-C-T.
Definition
- 1Action.
- 2Acte.
- 3Loi.
- 4Acte.
- 5Numéro.
- 6Réalité, fait.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how act appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
That best portion of a good man's life, / His little, nameless, unremembered acts / Of kindness and of love.
In order to make it easier to bring biotech from the laboratory to factory and then onto the market we will propose a new European Biotech Act in 2025.
Synonyms
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).