appareille

\a.pa.ʁɛj\

/\a.pa.ʁɛj\/ verb

The verdict

“appareille” is uncommon French (frequency #71,248 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#71,248
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 du verbe appareiller.

Corpus desk

Index FR-appareille · appareille · French

appareille · rank #71,248 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #71,248
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH apicole

Nearest frequency peer: apicole (-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 « appareille »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appareille » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for appareille
PropertyValue
Headwordappareille
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pa.ʁɛj\
Letters10
Frequency rank#71,248
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « appareille » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).appareilletombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « apicole » (#71,247), « arb » (#71,249), « apatite » (#71,246). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appareille » est au #71,248. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

appareille is uncommon French at frequency #71,248 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pa.ʁɛj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for appareille, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is appareille, spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-I-L-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe appareiller.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe appareiller.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe appareiller.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe appareiller.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe appareiller.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Elle est pleine de bois Brésil, ils achèvent d’y monter les cages de sagouins et de perroquets et dans huit jours, elle appareille.

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 "appareille"?
"appareille" is spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-I-L-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pa.ʁɛj\.
What does "appareille" mean?
As a verb, "appareille" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe appareiller.
How do you pronounce "appareille"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appareille" 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 "appareille" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list