apanage

Name: apanage, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/

\a.pa.naʒ\

/\a.pa.naʒ\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“apanage” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,238. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#21,238
frequency rank, French: 6,727
“A” headwords: 9
tracked misspellings: 1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Domaine foncier propre d'un prince ou d'un pair, dont il bénéficie du revenu : ce que les souverains donnaient à leurs puînés pour leur tenir lieu de partage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-apanage · apanage · French

apanage · rank #21,238 · 9 variants · 1 confusable

FREQ-MID #21,238
LEN-LONG 7 letters
VOW-4 4 vowels
CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
VAR-MID 9 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,727
PHOTO-FINISH Anita

Nearest frequency peer: Anita (-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.

amicales

78,766
anecdotique

78,765
Anita

78,764
apanage

78,763
appât

78,762
Argenteuil

78,760

What this shows « apanage » 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).

apanage vs avantage

75% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for apanage
Property	Value
Headword	apanage
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\a.pa.naʒ\
Letters	7
Frequency rank	#21,238
Misspellings tracked	9
Confusable pairs	1
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « apanage »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.apanagese place ici:

#21,238

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Anita » (#21,237), « appât » (#21,239), « anecdotique » (#21,236). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « apanage » est au #21,238. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around apanage (IPA \a.pa.naʒ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,238 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for apanage, with forms such as "aapnage", "apaange", and "apanaeg". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "avantage", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is apanage, spelled A-P-A-N-A-G-E.

Definition

1
Domaine foncier propre d'un prince ou d'un pair, dont il bénéficie du revenu : ce que les souverains donnaient à leurs puînés pour leur tenir lieu de partage.
2
Domaine terrien privé dont devait disposer un pair de France sous la Restauration.
3
Ce qui est le propre de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose, soit en bien, soit en mal.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how apanage appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

De 1270 à la fin du XIVe siècle, le statut des princesses royales en France est en cours de normalisation. Les filles du roi sont progressivement exclues du trône, des apanages et de la pairie.
Il y a aussi dans les tournures de phrases quelque chose d'italien, - ce qui tient sans doute au long séjour qu'ont fait les Médicis et leur suite florentine dans ces contrées, divisées autrefois en apanages royaux et princiers.

This word in other languages

apanage(English)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

aapnage
apaange
apanaeg
apanagge
apangae
apannage
apnaage
appanage
paanage

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apanage - 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.

Edit distance from "apanage"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "apanage"?

"apanage" is spelled A-P-A-N-A-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pa.naʒ\.

What does "apanage" mean?

As a noun, "apanage" means: Domaine foncier propre d'un prince ou d'un pair, dont il bénéficie du revenu : ce que les souverains donnaient à leurs puînés pour leur tenir lieu de partage.

What words are commonly confused with "apanage"?

"apanage" is commonly confused with "avantage". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.

How do you pronounce "apanage"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "apanage" is \a.pa.naʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "apanage" come from?

"apanage" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.

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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "apanage", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

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