appareil
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,582
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
3
similar word pairs
appareil is aFrenchnoun. It means: Objet complexe conçu par l’homme afin de faciliter un travail. Pronounced \a.pa.ʁɛj\. It ranks #1,582 in French word frequency. Often confused with apparent and appareils.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appareil |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pa.ʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,582 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for appareil is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pa.ʁɛj\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,582 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for appareil, with forms such as "apapreil", "apareil", and "appaeril". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "apparent", "appareils", "apparaît", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is appareil, spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-I-L, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Objet complexe conçu par l’homme afin de faciliter un travail.
- 2Téléphone.
- 3Avion.
- 4Mélange de plusieurs ingrédients servant à la préparation d’un mets.
- 5Ensemble d’organes ayant une fonction particulière.
- 6Manière dont les personnes ou les choses se montrent aux autres. → voir dans le plus simple appareil
- 7Agencement et disposition des pierres dans un ouvrage de maçonnerie.
- 8Installation mobile posée au sol permettant de faire des exercices spécifiques (barres parallèles, cheval d’arçons, etc.) Les éléments suspendus sont appelés agrès.
- 9Apprêt, préparatif d'une manifestation empreinte de pompe, de solennité. Déploiement extérieur qui accompagne une telle manifestation.
- 10Responsables d’une organisation, d’un parti politique.
- 11Ensemble des fonctions qui régissent une organisation.
- 12Ensemble d’annotations et de commentaires qu’un éditeur annexe au texte original pour en faciliter la compréhension.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apapreil,apareil,appaeril,appareill,appareli,appariel,apparreil,appraeil,papareil
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for appareil
Misspelling Variants of "appareil"
Frequency rank: #1,582 in French
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