apartheid

\a.paʁ.tɛd\

/\a.paʁ.tɛd\/ noun

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The verdict

“apartheid” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,061. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,061
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En Afrique du Sud, régime politique de séparation des Blancs et des Noirs en tant que groupes raciaux distincts.

Corpus desk

Index FR-apartheid · apartheid · French

apartheid · rank #16,061 · 13 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,061
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Antoinette

Nearest frequency peer: Antoinette (-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 « apartheid »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « apartheid » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for apartheid
PropertyValue
Headwordapartheid
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.paʁ.tɛd\
Letters9
Frequency rank#16,061
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « apartheid »

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

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Antoinette » (#16,060), « Apollon » (#16,062), « anse » (#16,059). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « apartheid » est au #16,061. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around apartheid (IPA \a.paʁ.tɛd\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,061 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for apartheid, with forms such as "aaprtheid", "aparhteid", and "aparrtheid". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is apartheid, spelled A-P-A-R-T-H-E-I-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    En Afrique du Sud, régime politique de séparation des Blancs et des Noirs en tant que groupes raciaux distincts.
  2. 2
    Politique tendant à séparer deux groupes raciaux ou ethniques.
  3. 3
    Discrimination, voire exclusion, d’une partie de la population qui ne dispose pas des mêmes droits, lieux d’habitation ou emplois que le reste de la collectivité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. L’Afrique du Sud, avec la fin de l’apartheid, a vu ainsi affluer des migrants venus du Mozambique, de Zambie ou d’Angola quand les Afrikaners partaient vers l’Australie ou l’Amérique.
  2. On a même parlé d’apartheid pour qualifier les conditions qui sont imposées aux Palestiniens.

Synonyms

ségrégationségrégationnismeséparation

This word in other languages

segregation(English)apartheid(Español)Apartheit(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aaprtheid
  • aparhteid
  • aparrtheid
  • apartehid
  • aparthedi
  • apartheidd
  • aparthheid
  • aparthied
  • aparttheid
  • apatrheid
  • appartheid
  • apratheid
  • paartheid

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apartheid - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

aaprtheid2aparhteid2aparrtheid1apartehid2aparthedi2apartheidd1aparthheid1aparthied2
Edit distance from "apartheid"

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 "apartheid"?
"apartheid" is spelled A-P-A-R-T-H-E-I-D. The IPA pronunciation is \a.paʁ.tɛd\.
What does "apartheid" mean?
As a noun, "apartheid" means: En Afrique du Sud, régime politique de séparation des Blancs et des Noirs en tant que groupes raciaux distincts.
What are common misspellings of "apartheid"?
Common misspellings include "aaprtheid", "aparhteid", "aparrtheid", "apartehid", "aparthedi". The correct spelling is "apartheid".
How do you pronounce "apartheid"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "apartheid" is \a.paʁ.tɛd\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "apartheid" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list