APD
\a.pe.de\
The verdict
“APD” is uncommon French (frequency #68,810 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,810
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Phase d’un projet de construction de bâtiment selon la loi MOP, dite d’avant-projet définitif. Il suit l’APS (avant-projet sommaire) et précède le PRO (projet).
Corpus desk
Index FR-apd · APD · French
APD · rank #68,810 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,810
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Anzin
Nearest frequency peer: Anzin (-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 « APD »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antinucléai…
antinucléaire
31,195 corpus weight
- Antwerp
Antwerp
31,194 corpus weight
- Anzin
Anzin
31,192 corpus weight
- APD
APD
31,191 corpus weight
- Apennins
Apennins
31,190 corpus weight
- appeliez
appeliez
31,188 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « APD » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | APD |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pe.de\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #68,810 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « APD » en français
Rare enough to double-check
APD is uncommon French at frequency #68,810 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.pe.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Phase d’un projet de construction de bâtiment selon la loi MOP, dite d’avant-projet définitif. Il suit l’APS (avant-projet sommaire) et précède le PRO (projet).".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for APD, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is APD, spelled A-P-D.
Definition
- 1Phase d’un projet de construction de bâtiment selon la loi MOP, dite d’avant-projet définitif. Il suit l’APS (avant-projet sommaire) et précède le PRO (projet).
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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