aplatissement

\a.pla.tis.mɑ̃\

/\a.pla.tis.mɑ̃\/ noun

The verdict

“aplatissement” is uncommon French (frequency #88,316 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#88,316
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’aplatir ou résultat de cette action.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aplatissement · aplatissement · French

aplatissement · rank #88,316 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #88,316
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH apologiste

Nearest frequency peer: apologiste (+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 « aplatissement »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aplatissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for aplatissement
PropertyValue
Headwordaplatissement
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.pla.tis.mɑ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#88,316
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « aplatissement » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).aplatissementtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « apologiste » (#88,317), « annula » (#88,314), « approvisionnée » (#88,318). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aplatissement » est au #88,316. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

aplatissement is uncommon French at frequency #88,316 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.pla.tis.mɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Action d’aplatir ou résultat de cette action.".

We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aplatissement, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 aplatissement, spelled A-P-L-A-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’aplatir ou résultat de cette action.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how aplatissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. C’était un « melon » qui naturellement, subissait toutes les phases du cabossage et de l’aplatissement. Son possesseur avait beau le retaper, l’épousseter, le placer à distance, une fatalité sournoise voulait que, tout à coup, tantôt l’un, tantôt l’autre des acrobates s’élançât à pieds joints sur lui.
  2. Le tube digestif présente à l’emplacement du pharynx un aplatissement de sa lumière interne dans le sens dorso-ventral.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aplatissement"?
"aplatissement" is spelled A-P-L-A-T-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pla.tis.mɑ̃\.
What does "aplatissement" mean?
As a noun, "aplatissement" means: Action d’aplatir ou résultat de cette action.
How do you pronounce "aplatissement"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aplatissement" is \a.pla.tis.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aplatissement" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aplatissement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list