apôtre des nations
\a.po.tʁə dɛ na.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“apôtre des nations” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 18
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - (avec l'article défini l’) Paul de Tarse, saint Paul.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apôtre des nations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.po.tʁə dɛ na.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 18 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “apôtre des nations” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for apôtre des nations is 18 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.po.tʁə dɛ na.sjɔ̃\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "(avec l'article défini l’) Paul de Tarse, saint Paul.".
No misspelling variants are generated for apôtre des nations in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is apôtre des nations, spelled A-P-Ô-T-R-E- -D-E-S- -N-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1(avec l'article défini l’) Paul de Tarse, saint Paul.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “apôtre des nations”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-P-Ô-T-R-E- -D-E-S- -N-A-T-I-O-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.