aplatissement
\a.pla.tis.mɑ̃\
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
- Angelin
Angelin
11,688 corpus weight
- annula
annula
11,687 corpus weight
- aplatisseme…
aplatissement
11,685 corpus weight
- apologiste
apologiste
11,684 corpus weight
- approvision…
approvisionnée
11,683 corpus weight
- apprêtée
apprêtée
11,682 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aplatissement » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aplatissement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pla.tis.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 13 |
| Frequency rank | #88,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aplatissement » en français
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
- 1Action d’aplatir ou résultat de cette action.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aplatissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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