apologiste
\a.pɔ.lɔ.ʒist\
The verdict
“apologiste” is uncommon French (frequency #88,317 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,317
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui ou celle qui fait l’apologie de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apologiste · apologiste · French
apologiste · rank #88,317 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,317
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aplatissement
Nearest frequency peer: aplatissement (-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 « apologiste »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- appétissants
appétissants
11,681 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apologiste » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apologiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pɔ.lɔ.ʒist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #88,317 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apologiste » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apologiste is uncommon French at frequency #88,317 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.pɔ.lɔ.ʒist\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Celui ou celle qui fait l’apologie de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for apologiste, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored 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 apologiste, spelled A-P-O-L-O-G-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui ou celle qui fait l’apologie de quelqu’un ou de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apologiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Moi, je me déclare son auxiliaire, son apologiste, et dussé-je être raillée et condamnée, je n’aurai pas assez de paroles pour louer et admirer sa conduite.
Les apologistes de la reine la représentent comme une femme du dix-huitième siècle, aimant la vie, l'amusement, la distraction, […], mais une femme honnête et pure.
Antonyms
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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