apogée
French, noun/a.pɔ.ʒe/
apogée is spelled A-P-O-G-É-E (6 letters) and appears 3.2 times per million words in written French, the 15,113th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apogée is a French masculine noun meaning “apogee (a point in an orbit around the Earth)” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer la Terre, le point le plus éloigné de celle-ci ; autrement dit, l’apoapside…”.
What does apogée mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapogee (a point in an orbit around the Earth)
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Sur une orbite ayant pour foyer la Terre, le point le plus éloigné de celle-ci ; autrement dit, l’apoapside d’une orbite géocentrique. 2. Le plus haut point où une chose puisse arriver.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of apogée
- apogées plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apogée?
- /a.pɔ.ʒe/
- \a.pɔ.ʒe\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to apogée
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is apogée in French?
apogée appears 3.2 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).