acting
\ˈæk.tɪŋ\
The verdict
“acting” is uncommon French (frequency #59,766 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,766
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Intérimaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acting · acting · French
acting · rank #59,766 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,766
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acidose
Nearest frequency peer: acidose (-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 « acting »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- abstractions
abstractions
40,238 corpus weight
- accolés
accolés
40,237 corpus weight
- acidose
acidose
40,236 corpus weight
- acting
acting
40,235 corpus weight
- admirative
admirative
40,234 corpus weight
- admirons
admirons
40,233 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acting » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acting |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈæk.tɪŋ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #59,766 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acting » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acting is uncommon French at frequency #59,766 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈæk.tɪŋ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Intérimaire.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for acting, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is acting, spelled A-C-T-I-N-G.
Definition
- 1Intérimaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how acting appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Teresa Ribera, Spain’s acting minister for the ecological transition, said the new council was making a grave environmental, political and financial error.
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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