acte
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,353
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
acte is aFrenchnoun. It means: Résultat d’une action, opération accomplie. Pronounced \akt\. It ranks #1,353 in French word frequency. Often confused with at and ae.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acte |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \akt\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #1,353 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for acte is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \akt\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,353 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 11 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for acte, with forms such as "accte", "acet", and "actte". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "ae", "Art", and more, 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 acte, spelled A-C-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Résultat d’une action, opération accomplie.
- 2Capacité d’agir.
- 3Action, ce qu’on fait ou ce qu’on peut faire.
- 4Écrit produisant des effets de droit.
- 5Déclaration faite devant un tribunal, et dont on a constaté l’existence.
- 6Décision de l’autorité publique.
- 7Recueils où sont réunies les décisions de l’autorité.
- 8Recueils de la vie, des faits d’un groupe, d’un peuple.
- 9Journal ou mémoire fait par une société de savants ou d’hommes de lettres, ou à l’occasion d’un congrès.
- 10Dans les anciennes universités, dispute publique où l’on soutenait des thèses.
- 11Chacune des parties principales dont une pièce de théâtre est composée et entre lesquelles il y a un intervalle appelé entracte.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: accte,acet,actte,atce,cate
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for acte
Misspelling Variants of "acte"
Frequency rank: #1,353 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: