apparatchik
\a.pa.ʁa.tʃik\
The verdict
“apparatchik” is uncommon French (frequency #80,869 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,869
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dignitaire du parti communiste soviétique en Russie ou ailleurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apparatchik · apparatchik · French
apparatchik · rank #80,869 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,869
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apical
Nearest frequency peer: apical (-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 « apparatchik »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antonyme
antonyme
19,135 corpus weight
- apathiques
apathiques
19,134 corpus weight
- apical
apical
19,133 corpus weight
- apparatchik
apparatchik
19,132 corpus weight
- appelleraie…
appelleraient
19,131 corpus weight
- approchais
approchais
19,130 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apparatchik » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apparatchik |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pa.ʁa.tʃik\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #80,869 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apparatchik » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apparatchik is uncommon French at frequency #80,869 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.pa.ʁa.tʃik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for apparatchik, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is apparatchik, spelled A-P-P-A-R-A-T-C-H-I-K.
Definition
- 1Dignitaire du parti communiste soviétique en Russie ou ailleurs.
- 2Dignitaire, cadre, d'une bureaucratie administrative, d'un parti politique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apparatchik appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un apparatchik chinois exécuté pour pots-de-vin. Pour apaiser le mécontentement général, le Premier ministre fustige la corruption.
Bertrand Plouvier vise, sans la nommer, la candidate tête de liste à Rennes pour le PS : la député Nathalie Appéré : « On a ici à Rennes de nombreux exemples, de personnes du sérail, au parcours typique d’apparatchik, directement sorties de Sciences Po qui après avoir été chargées de mission au sein de collectivités locales ou d’établissements publics son…
This word in other languages
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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