aperçurent
\a.pɛʁ.syʁ\
The verdict
“aperçurent” is uncommon French (frequency #86,413 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,413
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de apercevoir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apercurent · aperçurent · French
aperçurent · rank #86,413 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,413
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apaisantes
Nearest frequency peer: apaisantes (-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 « aperçurent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anthroposop…
anthroposophie
13,591 corpus weight
- Antonins
Antonins
13,590 corpus weight
- apaisantes
apaisantes
13,589 corpus weight
- aperçurent
aperçurent
13,588 corpus weight
- aphtes
aphtes
13,587 corpus weight
- appesantir
appesantir
13,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aperçurent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aperçurent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pɛʁ.syʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,413 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aperçurent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aperçurent is uncommon French at frequency #86,413 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pɛʁ.syʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de apercevoir.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aperçurent, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is aperçurent, spelled A-P-E-R-Ç-U-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple de apercevoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aperçurent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tout d’abord, les hommes du groupe n’aperçurent pas Maigret qui flânait le long du warf.
Mais une fois les portes fermées, ils s’aperçurent qu’ils étaient tous, et le narrateur lui-même, pris dans le même sac et qu’il fallait s’en arranger.
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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