acter
\ak.te\
The verdict
“acter” is uncommon French (frequency #61,276 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,276
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Noter une décision sur un acte, dans un protocole, prendre acte de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acter · acter · French
acter · rank #61,276 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,276
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adaptateurs
Nearest frequency peer: adaptateurs (+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 « acter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- acheminées
acheminées
38,728 corpus weight
- acheteuse
acheteuse
38,727 corpus weight
- acter
acter
38,725 corpus weight
- adaptateurs
adaptateurs
38,724 corpus weight
- adaptative
adaptative
38,723 corpus weight
- adaptera
adaptera
38,722 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ak.te\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acter is uncommon French at frequency #61,276 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ak.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for acter in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is acter, spelled A-C-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Noter une décision sur un acte, dans un protocole, prendre acte de quelque chose.
- 2Décider de façon définitive et consigner par écrit.
- 3Prendre en compte, constater.
- 4Jouer un rôle au théâtre ou au cinéma.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how acter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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On croyait la décision actée. Il semblerait que rien n’est définitif.
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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