raccord

/\ʁa.kɔʁ\/ noun

Letters

7 characters

Frequency Rank

#27,587

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

raccord is aFrenchnoun. It means: Liaison, ajustage de parties séparées ou dissemblables, ou qui faisaient disparate. Pronounced \ʁa.kɔʁ\. Often confused with record and raccorder.

Key facts for raccord
PropertyValue
Headwordraccord
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ʁa.kɔʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#27,587
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of raccord in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for raccord is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ʁa.kɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #27,587 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for raccord, with forms such as "arccord", "raccodr", and "raccordd". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "record", "raccorder", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 raccord, spelled R-A-C-C-O-R-D, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Liaison, ajustage de parties séparées ou dissemblables, ou qui faisaient disparate.
  2. 2
    Pièce en fonte, en cuivre, en poterie, en PVC, etc., qui sert à assembler deux tuyauteries.
  3. 3
    Se dit en parlant des ouvrages de l’esprit.
  4. 4
    Enchaînement entre deux plans successifs d’un film.
  5. 5
    Avant un concert dans un lieu nouveau, préparation du placement des musiciens sur la scène, de l’entrée en scène, de la sortie des musiciens, répétition de certains morceaux et des enchainements pour les accorder à l’acoustique du lieu.
  6. 6
    Concordance des éléments graphiques d’une coupure avec ceux d’une coupure adjacente, le long de la limite commune.
  7. 7
    Concordance des images représentées par deux documents quelconques présentant une zone commune, le long d’une ligne de cette zone.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: arccord,raccodr,raccordd,raccorrd,raccrod,racocrd,racord,rcacord,rraccord

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for raccord

Misspelling Variants of "raccord"

arccord7raccodr7raccordd8raccorrd8raccrod7racocrd7racord6rcacord7
Misspelling Variants of "raccord"

Frequency rank: #27,587 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "raccord"?
"raccord" is spelled R-A-C-C-O-R-D. The IPA pronunciation is \ʁa.kɔʁ\.
What does "raccord" mean?
As a noun, "raccord" means: Liaison, ajustage de parties séparées ou dissemblables, ou qui faisaient disparate.
What words are commonly confused with "raccord"?
"raccord" is commonly confused with "record", "raccorder". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "raccord"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "raccord" is \ʁa.kɔʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "raccord" come from?
"raccord" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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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.