apparaissaient
\a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ\
The verdict
“apparaissaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,704. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,704
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de apparaître (ou apparaitre).
Corpus desk
Index FR-apparaissaient · apparaissaient · French
apparaissaient · rank #36,704 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #36,704
- LEN-MEGA 14 letters
- VOW-7 7 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apiculture
Nearest frequency peer: apiculture (-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 « apparaissaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- anglet
anglet
63,300 corpus weight
- ANSM
ANSM
63,299 corpus weight
- apiculture
apiculture
63,298 corpus weight
- apparaissai…
apparaissaient
63,297 corpus weight
- apparents
apparents
63,296 corpus weight
- apparenté
apparenté
63,295 corpus weight
What this shows « apparaissaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | apparaissaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ\ |
| Letters | 14 |
| Frequency rank | #36,704 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « apparaissaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around apparaissaient (IPA \a.pa.ʁɛ.sɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,704 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de apparaître (ou apparaitre).".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for apparaissaient, with forms such as "apapraissaient", "aparaissaient", and "appaarissaient". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "apparaissent", "apparaissait", "apparaissant", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is apparaissaient, spelled A-P-P-A-R-A-I-S-S-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’imparfait de apparaître (ou apparaitre).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apparaissaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
D’ailleurs, les mots nouveaux, qui apparaissaient avec le progrès, avaient vite fait d’être « patoisés » suivant des règles immuables.
Toutes les leçons de l’amiral - qu’elles concernassent Platon ou les fortifications militaires - lui apparaissaient comme le propre de l’homme sur cette terre.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apapraissaient
- aparaissaient
- appaarissaient
- apparaisaient
- apparaisasient
- apparaissaeint
- apparaissaiennt
- apparaissaientt
- apparaissaietn
- apparaissainet
- apparaissiaent
- apparasisaient
- appariassaient
- apparraissaient
- appraaissaient
- paparaissaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apparaissaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 14 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).