app
\ap\
The verdict
“app” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #8,652) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #8,652
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Application.
Corpus desk
Index FR-app · app · French
app · rank #8,652 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,652
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aléatoire
Nearest frequency peer: aléatoire (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « app »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- affreux
affreux
91,352 corpus weight
- ajoutez
ajoutez
91,351 corpus weight
- aléatoire
aléatoire
91,350 corpus weight
- app
app
91,349 corpus weight
- appelant
appelant
91,348 corpus weight
- argentin
argentin
91,347 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « app » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | app |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ap\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #8,652 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « app »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for app is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ap\. Frequency #8,652 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Application.".
Zero misspellings are on record for app in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is app, spelled A-P-P.
Definition
- 1Application.
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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