apaisent
\a.pɛz\
The verdict
“apaisent” is uncommon French (frequency #59,073 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,073
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe apaiser.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apaisent · apaisent · French
apaisent · rank #59,073 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,073
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Anquetil
Nearest frequency peer: Anquetil (-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 « apaisent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anglicans
anglicans
40,931 corpus weight
- Anquetil
Anquetil
40,929 corpus weight
- apaisent
apaisent
40,928 corpus weight
- apparais
apparais
40,927 corpus weight
- appareiller
appareiller
40,926 corpus weight
- appliqua
appliqua
40,925 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apaisent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apaisent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pɛz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,073 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apaisent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apaisent is uncommon French at frequency #59,073 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for apaisent, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is apaisent, spelled A-P-A-I-S-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe apaiser.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe apaiser.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how apaisent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).