acte de chair
\akt də ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“acte de chair” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 13
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acte sexuel de l’homme et de la femme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acte-de-chair · acte de chair · French
acte de chair · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-MEGA 13 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acte de chair |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \akt də ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
acte de chair is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \akt də ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Acte sexuel de l’homme et de la femme.".
acte de chair doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 acte de chair, spelled A-C-T-E- -D-E- -C-H-A-I-R.
Definition
- 1Acte sexuel de l’homme et de la femme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acte de chair appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pourquoi résistait-elle à Busard avec une obstination qui eût fait la gloire d’une dévote, dans les siècles où l’on croyait que l’acte de chair engage le salut éternel ?
En apparence les lits jumeaux semblaient prêcher davantage le repos. En fait leur puritanisme cachait une impureté. « Pour dormi vous vous isolerez de votre partenaire. Vous ne le rejoindrez que pour accomplir l’acte de chair. » Ils supprimaient l’intimité, la rêverie, la chaleur des corps qui deviennent des âmes.
Synonyms
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.