alpaguer
\al.pa.ɡe\
The verdict
“alpaguer” is uncommon French (frequency #93,471 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,471
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prendre, saisir, appréhender, arrêter, serrer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpaguer · alpaguer · French
alpaguer · rank #93,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,471
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allem
Nearest frequency peer: allem (-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 « alpaguer »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aiguisent
aiguisent
6,534 corpus weight
- akin
akin
6,533 corpus weight
- allem
allem
6,531 corpus weight
- alpaguer
alpaguer
6,530 corpus weight
- amabilités
amabilités
6,529 corpus weight
- amavi
amavi
6,528 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alpaguer » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alpaguer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \al.pa.ɡe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alpaguer » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alpaguer is uncommon French at frequency #93,471 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \al.pa.ɡe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for alpaguer in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is alpaguer, spelled A-L-P-A-G-U-E-R.
Definition
- 1Prendre, saisir, appréhender, arrêter, serrer.
- 2Apostropher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alpaguer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À force de prendre de moins en moins de précautions, il finira par se faire alpaguer.
– Si je comprends bien, vous allez envoyer un paquet contenant de vieux papiers coupés au format et vous voulez que je surveille le guichet de la poste restante pour alpaguer le destinataire et lui dire ce que vous m’avez dit de lui dire.
This word in other languages
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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