apéréa
\a.pe.ʁe.a\
The verdict
“apéréa” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de cobaye sauvage originaire du Brésil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aperea · apéréa · French
apéréa · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apéréa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pe.ʁe.a\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
apéréa is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.pe.ʁe.a\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Espèce de cobaye sauvage originaire du Brésil.".
apéréa has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is apéréa, spelled A-P-É-R-É-A.
Definition
- 1Espèce de cobaye sauvage originaire du Brésil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apéréa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La taille du Cobaye austral est toujours moindre que celle de l’Apéréa; les plus grands des individus qui ont servi de types à notre description , n'avaient pas même huit pouces de longueur totale.
On a cherché, mais vainement, à retrouver, en Amérique, le cochon d’Inde à l'état sauvage. Plusieurs naturalistes croient qu'il descend de l’apéréa; mais les différences sont telles entre ces deux animaux, qu'on ne peut admettre une telle origine. Du reste, le cochon d'Inde et l’apéréa ne s'accouplent pas ensemble.
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.