apparais
\a.pa.ʁɛ\
The verdict
“apparais” is uncommon French (frequency #59,074 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,074
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de apparaître (ou apparaitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-apparais · apparais · French
apparais · rank #59,074 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,074
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apaisent
Nearest frequency peer: apaisent (-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 « apparais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anglicans
anglicans
40,931 corpus weight
- Anquetil
Anquetil
40,929 corpus weight
- apaisent
apaisent
40,928 corpus weight
- apparais
apparais
40,927 corpus weight
- appareiller
appareiller
40,926 corpus weight
- appliqua
appliqua
40,925 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apparais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apparais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pa.ʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,074 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apparais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apparais is uncommon French at frequency #59,074 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pa.ʁɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for apparais in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is apparais, spelled A-P-P-A-R-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de apparaître (ou apparaitre).
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de apparaître (ou apparaitre).
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de apparaître (ou apparaitre).
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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