apatride

\a.pa.tʁid\

/\a.pa.tʁid\/ adj

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The verdict

“apatride” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,481. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#49,481
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est sans patrie, sans nationalité.

Corpus desk

Index FR-apatride · apatride · French

apatride · rank #49,481 · 11 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #49,481
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH apocalyptiques

Nearest frequency peer: apocalyptiques (+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 « apatride »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « apatride » 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

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

apatride vs apatrides
89% similar
apatride vs apathie
75% similar
apatride vs amatrice
75% similar

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

Key facts for apatride
PropertyValue
Headwordapatride
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.pa.tʁid\
Letters8
Frequency rank#49,481
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « apatride »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).apatridese 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 « apocalyptiques » (#49,482), « apostats » (#49,483), « appauvrit » (#49,484). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « apatride » est au #49,481. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around apatride (IPA \a.pa.tʁid\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #49,481 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est sans patrie, sans nationalité.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for apatride, with forms such as "aaptride", "apartide", and "apatirde". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "apatrides", "apathie", "amatrice", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is apatride, spelled A-P-A-T-R-I-D-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est sans patrie, sans nationalité.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Tandis que le socialisme s’acharnait à secouer la tutelle d’un pouvoir économique apatride, une classe moyenne qui aspirait à se pavaner en classe dirigeante, décida de s’emparer du pouvoir culturel.
  2. – Il n’est plus « apatride », mais désormais « d’origine indéterminée ». – Je vois. Être apatride, c’est être quelque chose. Être indéterminé, c‘est louche.

Synonyms

heimatlosheimathlos

This word in other languages

stateless(English)apátrida(Español)staatenlos(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aaptride
  • apartide
  • apatirde
  • apatrdie
  • apatridde
  • apatried
  • apatrride
  • apattride
  • appatride
  • aptaride
  • paatride

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

aaptride2apartide2apatirde2apatrdie2apatridde1apatried2apatrride1apattride1
Edit distance from "apatride"

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 "apatride"?
"apatride" is spelled A-P-A-T-R-I-D-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pa.tʁid\.
What does "apatride" mean?
As an adjective, "apatride" means: Qui est sans patrie, sans nationalité.
What words are commonly confused with "apatride"?
"apatride" is commonly confused with "apatrides", "apathie", "amatrice". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "apatride"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "apatride" is \a.pa.tʁid\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "apatride" come from?
"apatride" 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 "apatride", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

apostats#49,483Armitage#49,490assistez#49,498aciéries#49,457

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

appauvrit11 variantsarrivions11 variantsarriviste11 variantsagrégat11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list