apologue
French, noun/a.pɔ.lɔɡ/
apologue is spelled A-P-O-L-O-G-U-E (8 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 112,013th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apologue is a French masculine noun meaning “apologue” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Récit à visée argumentative et allégorique qui prétend moraliser ou instruire et qui ne se soucie pas…”.
What does apologue mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineapologue
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Récit à visée argumentative et allégorique qui prétend moraliser ou instruire et qui ne se soucie pas toujours de sa vraisemblance.
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 apologue
- apologues plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apologue?
- /a.pɔ.lɔɡ/
- \a.pɔ.lɔɡ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is apologue in French?
apologue appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).