apercevait
\a.pɛʁ.sə.vɛ\
The verdict
“apercevait” is uncommon French (frequency #66,490 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,490
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de apercevoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apercevait · apercevait · French
apercevait · rank #66,490 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,490
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Antonius
Nearest frequency peer: Antonius (-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 « apercevait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anticoagula…
anticoagulant
33,514 corpus weight
- antipolluti…
antipollution
33,513 corpus weight
- Antonius
Antonius
33,512 corpus weight
- apercevait
apercevait
33,511 corpus weight
- apparentant
apparentant
33,510 corpus weight
- apposés
apposés
33,508 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apercevait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apercevait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pɛʁ.sə.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #66,490 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apercevait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apercevait is uncommon French at frequency #66,490 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pɛʁ.sə.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de apercevoir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for apercevait, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists 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 apercevait, spelled A-P-E-R-C-E-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’imparfait de apercevoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apercevait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parmi les couples qui tournaient, il apercevait, fox-trottant, virevoltant, pleins d’allégresse et d’entrain, Charlotte et Béchoux
Malheureuse famille, qui ne s’apercevait pas que le siècle s’avançait comme le dictateur romain précédé de ses faisceaux de commandement !!!
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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