apeuré
\a.pœ.ʁe\
The verdict
“apeuré” is uncommon French (frequency #50,640 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,640
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est pris de peur.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apeure · apeuré · French
apeuré · rank #50,640 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,640
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anéantit
Nearest frequency peer: anéantit (-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 « apeuré »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ANPE
ANPE
49,364 corpus weight
- anthrax
anthrax
49,363 corpus weight
- anéantit
anéantit
49,362 corpus weight
- apeuré
apeuré
49,361 corpus weight
- appert
appert
49,360 corpus weight
- araméen
araméen
49,359 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apeuré » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apeuré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.pœ.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #50,640 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apeuré » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apeuré is uncommon French at frequency #50,640 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.pœ.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
apeuré has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is apeuré, spelled A-P-E-U-R-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est pris de peur.
- 2Qui manifeste de la peur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apeuré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une fois à Beaugency, il traversa le pont et s’engagea dans la forêt solognote à la recherche du cimetière de voitures. Apeurés, des faisans et des perdreaux s’envolaient sur son passage et se cachaient derrière les haies.
Tout ce quʼil veut dire, il lʼaffirme, et avec une telle fermeté de pensée, que le doute, apeuré, fuit.
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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