apicole
\a.pi.kɔl\
The verdict
“apicole” is uncommon French (frequency #71,247 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,247
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’apiculture, l’élevage des abeilles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apicole · apicole · French
apicole · rank #71,247 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,247
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apatite
Nearest frequency peer: apatite (-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 « apicole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antillaises
antillaises
28,757 corpus weight
- antinomiques
antinomiques
28,756 corpus weight
- apatite
apatite
28,755 corpus weight
- apicole
apicole
28,754 corpus weight
- appareille
appareille
28,753 corpus weight
- arb
arb
28,752 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apicole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apicole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.pi.kɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #71,247 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apicole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apicole is uncommon French at frequency #71,247 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.pi.kɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à l’apiculture, l’élevage des abeilles.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for apicole, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, 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 apicole, spelled A-P-I-C-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’apiculture, l’élevage des abeilles.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apicole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une partie des récoltes 1975 et 1976 reste invendue. Il semble qu'elles devront être supportées par les apiculteurs et les négociants et coopératives apicoles conditionnant, qui demandent du crédit, alors que les producteurs veulent du comptant.
On ne peut pas comprendre lʼévolution de la recherche apicole en France sans faire un retour en arrière et sans examiner, au moins sommairement, ce qui se passait dans le monde apicole entre 1800 et 1940.
This word in other languages
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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