apathique
\a.pa.tik\
The verdict
“apathique” is uncommon French (frequency #52,486 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,486
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui souffre d’apathie, impassible, insensible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apathique · apathique · French
apathique · rank #52,486 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,486
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antienne
Nearest frequency peer: antienne (-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 « apathique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anticipent
anticipent
47,518 corpus weight
- anticorrupt…
anticorruption
47,517 corpus weight
- antienne
antienne
47,516 corpus weight
- apathique
apathique
47,515 corpus weight
- apel
apel
47,514 corpus weight
- apparentée
apparentée
47,513 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apathique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apathique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.pa.tik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #52,486 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apathique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apathique is uncommon French at frequency #52,486 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.pa.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for apathique in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is apathique, spelled A-P-A-T-H-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui souffre d’apathie, impassible, insensible.
- 2Qualifie quelqu'un de fatigué, mou et sans énergie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apathique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Chartrain est cupide, apathique et salace, répliqua l’abbé Plomb ; cupide surtout, car la passion du lucre est ici, sous des dehors inertes, féroce.
Ce jeune homme est vraiment apathique.
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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