apercevons
\a.pɛʁ.sə.vɔ̃\
The verdict
“apercevons” is uncommon French (frequency #65,696 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,696
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de apercevoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apercevons · apercevons · French
apercevons · rank #65,696 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,696
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anémones
Nearest frequency peer: anémones (-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.
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What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apercevons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apercevons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pɛʁ.sə.vɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #65,696 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apercevons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apercevons is uncommon French at frequency #65,696 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pɛʁ.sə.vɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for apercevons, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is apercevons, spelled A-P-E-R-C-E-V-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de apercevoir.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de apercevoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how apercevons appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dans la lumière des torches, nous apercevons une espèce rare de chouette, une famille de capybaras, une gigantesque tarentule aux poils roses et, furtivement, un onça, le jaguar brésilien.
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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