apostat
\a.po.sta\
The verdict
“apostat” is uncommon French (frequency #57,747 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,747
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne ayant abandonné sa religion, qui a fait acte d’apostasie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apostat · apostat · French
apostat · rank #57,747 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,747
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anxiolytiques
Nearest frequency peer: anxiolytiques (-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 « apostat »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- amplifiant
amplifiant
42,257 corpus weight
- antisionisme
antisionisme
42,256 corpus weight
- anxiolytiqu…
anxiolytiques
42,255 corpus weight
- apostat
apostat
42,254 corpus weight
- appartenons
appartenons
42,253 corpus weight
- apprennes
apprennes
42,252 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apostat » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apostat |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.po.sta\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #57,747 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apostat » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apostat is uncommon French at frequency #57,747 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.po.sta\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
apostat has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is apostat, spelled A-P-O-S-T-A-T.
Definition
- 1Personne ayant abandonné sa religion, qui a fait acte d’apostasie.
- 2Personne qui ne suit plus la ligne directrice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apostat appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous n’êtes point apostats pour embrasser publiquement des principes nouveaux, qui sont ceux que vous admettez au fond de votre âme et que vous professez dans le secret de votre cœur; mais vous l’êtes quand vous croyez une doctrine et que vous en professez une autre. Vous êtes apostats, vils apostats, quand vous vous dites papistes, et que vous vous vante…
Une religion qui punit de mort l’éventuel apostat est une religion qui me semble très peu sûre d’elle-même.
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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