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apperception

/ˌæpɚˈsɛpʃən/noun

apperception is spelled A-P-P-E-R-C-E-P-T-I-O-N: 12 letters. It appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, apperception means “The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that…” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of apperception is apperceptions.

How many letters and syllables are in apperception?

Letters12: A-P-P-E-R-C-E-P-T-I-O-N
In writingabout once in every 17 million words; the 124,184th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search
Rhymes with

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.

How common is apperception?

Apperception appears about once in every 17 million words in written English, the 124,184th most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How do you pronounce apperception?

  • UK /ˌæpəˈsɛpʃən/
  • US /ˌæpɚˈsɛpʃən/

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Eleanorrrrrrrrrr-apperception.wav, LL-Q1860_(eng)-Aadenboy-apperception.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).

What rhymes with apperception?

5 words on PlainSpell end in the same sounds as apperception from its last stressed vowel (/ɛpʃən/):

Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).

Forms of apperception

  • apperceptions plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does apperception mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    The mind's perception of itself as the subject or actor in its own states, unifying past and present experiences; self-consciousness, perception that reflects upon itself.

  2. 2

    Psychological or mental perception; recognition.

  3. 3

    The general process or a particular act of mental assimilation of new experience into the totality of one's past experience.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Apperception in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
Frenchaperception, apperception (mind’s perception of itself as subject)
GermanApperzeption (mind’s perception of itself as subject)
Portugueseapercepção (mind’s perception of itself as subject), apreensão (mental assimilation of new experience)
Spanishapercepción (mind’s perception of itself as subject)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does apperception come from?

Borrowed from French aperception (New Latin apperceptiō, used by Gottfried Leibniz (1646–1716)).

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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