apôtre

\a.potʁ\

/\a.potʁ\/ noun

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The verdict

“apôtre” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,296. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#16,296
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des douze personnes que Jésus-Christ choisit particulièrement, entre ses disciples, pour prêcher l’évangile.

Corpus desk

Index FR-apotre · apôtre · French

apôtre · rank #16,296 · 9 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #16,296
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH antérieurs

Nearest frequency peer: antérieurs (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « apôtre »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « apôtre » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

apôtre vs apte
67% similar
apôtre vs âpre
50% similar
apôtre vs autre
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for apôtre
PropertyValue
Headwordapôtre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.potʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#16,296
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « apôtre »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).apôtrese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « antérieurs » (#16,295), « aristocratie » (#16,297), « analystes » (#16,294). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « apôtre » est au #16,296. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around apôtre (IPA \a.potʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,296 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for apôtre, with forms such as "apotre", "appôtre", and "aptôre". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "apte", "âpre", "autre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is apôtre, spelled A-P-Ô-T-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Une des douze personnes que Jésus-Christ choisit particulièrement, entre ses disciples, pour prêcher l’évangile.
  2. 2
    Autre personne particulièrement chargée pour diffuser l’évangile au temps des premiers chrétiens.
  3. 3
    Chacun des enfants dont on lave les pieds le Jeudi-Saint, lors de la cérémonie de la Cène.
  4. 4
    Celui qui, le premier, a prêché la foi dans quelque pays.
  5. 5
    Celui qui se voue à la propagation et à la défense d’une doctrine, d’une opinion, d’un système.
  6. 6
    Les doigts des mains.
  7. 7
    Allonge qui consolide le beaupré.
  8. 8
    Lettre par laquelle un condamné dénonçait appel au juge qui avait prononcé la sentence.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how apôtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Le sanctuaire, dont les piliers sont décorés des statues des Apôtres, était entièrement peint.
  2. Car moi, je suis le plus petit des Apôtres, je ne suis pas digne d’être appelé Apôtre, puisque j’ai persécuté l’Église de Dieu.

This word in other languages

apostle(English)apóstol(Español)Apostel(Deutsch)apóstolo(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apotre
  • appôtre
  • aptôre
  • apôrte
  • apôter
  • apôtrre
  • apôttre
  • aôptre
  • paôtre

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apôtre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

apotre1appôtre1aptôre2apôrte2apôter2apôtrre1apôttre1aôptre2
Edit distance from "apôtre"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "apôtre"?
"apôtre" is spelled A-P-Ô-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.potʁ\.
What does "apôtre" mean?
As a noun, "apôtre" means: Une des douze personnes que Jésus-Christ choisit particulièrement, entre ses disciples, pour prêcher l’évangile.
What words are commonly confused with "apôtre"?
"apôtre" is commonly confused with "apte", "âpre", "autre". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "apôtre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "apôtre" is \a.potʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "apôtre" come from?
"apôtre" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "apôtre", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

asthme#16,299Burton#16,312cibler#16,320coming#16,325

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

vinyle9 variantscorbeau9 variantssurvit9 variantsSergueï9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list