Apennins
\a.pɛ.nɛ̃\
The verdict
“Apennins” is uncommon French (frequency #68,811 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,811
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de Apennin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apennins · Apennins · French
Apennins · rank #68,811 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,811
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH APD
Nearest frequency peer: APD (-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 « Apennins »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- appentis
appentis
31,187 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Apennins » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apennins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.pɛ.nɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,811 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Apennins » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Apennins is uncommon French at frequency #68,811 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.pɛ.nɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Apennins in our index, 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, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Apennins, spelled A-P-E-N-N-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de Apennin.
- 2Ancien département français d’Italie ayant existé de 1805 à 1814 et dont le chef-lieu était Chiavari (Chiavart).
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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