apoplexie
\a.pɔ.plɛk.si\
The verdict
“apoplexie” is uncommon French (frequency #55,053 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,053
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrêt brusque, plus ou moins complet, des fonctions cérébrales, accompagné de la perte entière ou partielle de la connaissance et du mouvement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apoplexie · apoplexie · French
apoplexie · rank #55,053 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,053
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Antoni
Nearest frequency peer: Antoni (-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 « apoplexie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- androïdes
androïdes
44,953 corpus weight
- angevine
angevine
44,952 corpus weight
- Antoni
Antoni
44,949 corpus weight
- apoplexie
apoplexie
44,948 corpus weight
- appréhendés
appréhendés
44,946 corpus weight
- assèche
assèche
44,944 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apoplexie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apoplexie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pɔ.plɛk.si\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #55,053 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apoplexie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apoplexie is uncommon French at frequency #55,053 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.pɔ.plɛk.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for apoplexie in our index, 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 documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is apoplexie, spelled A-P-O-P-L-E-X-I-E.
Definition
- 1Arrêt brusque, plus ou moins complet, des fonctions cérébrales, accompagné de la perte entière ou partielle de la connaissance et du mouvement.
- 2Maladie cryptogamique de la vigne et nommée esca.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apoplexie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eh bien ! ceux-là ont pu dire la sensation qu'ils ont éprouvée. C'est celle d'une apoplexie foudroyante, c'est-à-dire d'un sommeil profond sans aucune douleur particulière, sans aucun sentiment d'une angoisse quelconque, une espèce de flamme qui jaillit devant les yeux, et qui, peu à peu, se change en couleur bleue, puis en obscurité, lorsque l'on tombe e…
Je ne parle pas ici du mutisme causé par la destruction des nerfs récurrents ou par une attaque d’apoplexie : il n’est alors qu’un symptôme.
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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