prendre pour acquis

/\\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pu.ʁ‿a.ki\/ verb

Letters

19 characters

Language

French

word origin

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similar word pairs

prendre pour acquis is aFrenchverb. It means: Considérer (quelque chose) comme certain ; ne pas remettre en question ; supposer quelque chose vrai sans vérification. Pronounced \\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pu.ʁ‿a.ki\.

Key facts for prendre pour acquis
PropertyValue
Headwordprendre pour acquis
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pu.ʁ‿a.ki\
Letters19
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

prendre pour acquis is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for prendre pour acquis is 19 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pu.ʁ‿a.ki\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Considérer (quelque chose) comme certain ; ne pas remettre en question ; supposer quelque chose vrai sans vérification.".

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for prendre pour acquis in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.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 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 prendre pour acquis, spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -P-O-U-R- -A-C-Q-U-I-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Considérer (quelque chose) comme certain ; ne pas remettre en question ; supposer quelque chose vrai sans vérification.

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Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "prendre pour acquis"?
"prendre pour acquis" is spelled P-R-E-N-D-R-E- -P-O-U-R- -A-C-Q-U-I-S. The IPA pronunciation is \\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pu.ʁ‿a.ki\.
What does "prendre pour acquis" mean?
As a verb, "prendre pour acquis" means: Considérer (quelque chose) comme certain ; ne pas remettre en question ; supposer quelque chose vrai sans vérification.
How do you pronounce "prendre pour acquis"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "prendre pour acquis" is \\pʁɑ̃.dʁə pu.ʁ‿a.ki\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "prendre pour acquis" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.