acts
\ˈækts\
The verdict
“acts” is uncommon French (frequency #66,469 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,469
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe act.
Corpus desk
Index FR-acts · acts · French
acts · rank #66,469 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,469
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH actionnant
Nearest frequency peer: actionnant (-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 « acts »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accroupis
accroupis
33,535 corpus weight
- achievement
achievement
33,534 corpus weight
- actionnant
actionnant
33,533 corpus weight
- acts
acts
33,532 corpus weight
- additionnée
additionnée
33,531 corpus weight
- affrètement
affrètement
33,530 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « acts » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | acts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ˈækts\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #66,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « acts » en français
Rare enough to double-check
acts is uncommon French at frequency #66,469 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ˈækts\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe act.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for acts, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 acts, spelled A-C-T-S.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe act.
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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