appareil

\a.pa.ʁɛj\

/\a.pa.ʁɛj\/ noun

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The verdict

“appareil” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,582. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,582
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
3
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Objet complexe conçu par l’homme afin de faciliter un travail.

Corpus desk

Index FR-appareil · appareil · French

appareil · rank #1,582 · 9 variants · 3 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,582
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH allons

Nearest frequency peer: allons (-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 « appareil »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « appareil » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

appareil vs apparent
75% similar
appareil vs appareils
89% similar
appareil vs apparaît
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for appareil
PropertyValue
Headwordappareil
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.pa.ʁɛj\
Letters8
Frequency rank#1,582
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs3
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appareil »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).appareilse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « allons » (#1,581), « auront » (#1,583), « Algérie » (#1,580). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appareil » est au #1,582. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around appareil (IPA \a.pa.ʁɛj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,582 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 12 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for appareil, with forms such as "apapreil", "apareil", and "appaeril". 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, "apparent", "appareils", "apparaît", 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 is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is appareil, spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-I-L.

Definition

  1. 1
    Objet complexe conçu par l’homme afin de faciliter un travail.
  2. 2
    Téléphone.
  3. 3
    Avion.
  4. 4
    Mélange de plusieurs ingrédients servant à la préparation d’un mets.
  5. 5
    Ensemble d’organes ayant une fonction particulière.
  6. 6
    Manière dont les personnes ou les choses se montrent aux autres. → voir dans le plus simple appareil
  7. 7
    Agencement et disposition des pierres dans un ouvrage de maçonnerie.
  8. 8
    Installation mobile posée au sol permettant de faire des exercices spécifiques (barres parallèles, cheval d’arçons, etc.) Les éléments suspendus sont appelés agrès.
  9. 9
    Apprêt, préparatif d'une manifestation empreinte de pompe, de solennité. Déploiement extérieur qui accompagne une telle manifestation.
  10. 10
    Responsables d’une organisation, d’un parti politique.
  11. 11
    Ensemble des fonctions qui régissent une organisation.
  12. 12
    Ensemble d’annotations et de commentaires qu’un éditeur annexe au texte original pour en faciliter la compréhension.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how appareil appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Tous les bras disponibles travaillaient à la confection d’un mât, auquel les électriciens du Vaterland accrocheraient les longues antennes de l’appareil de télégraphie sans fil qui devait enfin relier le Prince au monde extérieur.
  2. Le téléphone sonna trois fois et Max parla longuement, en fumant. Il gribouillait sur une feuille de papier près de l’appareil.

This word in other languages

gear(English)aparato(Español)Gerät(Deutsch)aparelho(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apapreil
  • apareil
  • appaeril
  • appareill
  • appareli
  • appariel
  • apparreil
  • appraeil
  • papareil

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appareil - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

apapreil2apareil1appaeril2appareill1appareli2appariel2apparreil1appraeil2
Edit distance from "appareil"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "appareil"?
"appareil" is spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-I-L. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pa.ʁɛj\.
What does "appareil" mean?
As a noun, "appareil" means: Objet complexe conçu par l’homme afin de faciliter un travail.
What words are commonly confused with "appareil"?
"appareil" is commonly confused with "apparent", "appareils", "apparaît". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appareil"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appareil" is \a.pa.ʁɛj\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appareil" come from?
"appareil" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "appareil", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

sociales#1,577signifie#1,576empêcher#1,591prennent#1,570

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

disant9 variantsfurent9 variantsjeunesse9 variantsauteurs9 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list