Apache
\a.paʃ\
The verdict
“Apache” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,101. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,101
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 10
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amérindien appartenant à une des nations apaches, habitant le Sud-Ouest des États-Unis, autrefois célèbre par son courage et sa ruse à la guerre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apache · Apache · French
Apache · rank #24,101 · 8 variants · 10 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,101
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 10 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Annette
Nearest frequency peer: Annette (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Apache »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ama
ama
75,903 corpus weight
- amazing
amazing
75,902 corpus weight
- Annette
Annette
75,901 corpus weight
- Apache
Apache
75,900 corpus weight
- aperçue
aperçue
75,899 corpus weight
- archiduc
archiduc
75,898 corpus weight
What this shows « Apache » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apache |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.paʃ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #24,101 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 10 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Apache »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Apache (IPA \a.paʃ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #24,101 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Amérindien appartenant à une des nations apaches, habitant le Sud-Ouest des États-Unis, autrefois célèbre par son courage et sa ruse à la guerre.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Apache, with forms such as "aapche", "apacche", and "apaceh". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 10 confusable-pair relationships, "arche", "apaise", "aparté", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Apache, spelled A-P-A-C-H-E.
Definition
- 1Amérindien appartenant à une des nations apaches, habitant le Sud-Ouest des États-Unis, autrefois célèbre par son courage et sa ruse à la guerre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Apache appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le droit de chasser, obtenu par les Navajos, avait en revanche été refusé aux Apaches. Car même sans armes à feu, les autorités militaires ne leur faisaient aucune confiance. Et c’était on ne peut plus réciproque.
Durant ce laps de temps, ses guerriers tuent 75 citoyens américains, 12 Apaches, 2 officiers, 8 soldats US et un nombre inconnu de Mexicains.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aapche
- apacche
- apaceh
- apachhe
- apahce
- apcahe
- appache
- paache
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Apache - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).