appareils
\a.pa.ʁɛj\
The verdict
“appareils” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,864. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,864
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de appareil.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appareils · appareils · French
appareils · rank #2,864 · 11 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,864
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anciennes
Nearest frequency peer: anciennes (-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 « appareils »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- active
active
97,140 corpus weight
- anciennes
anciennes
97,138 corpus weight
- appareils
appareils
97,137 corpus weight
- bat
bat
97,136 corpus weight
- citoyen
citoyen
97,135 corpus weight
- commissaire
commissaire
97,134 corpus weight
What this shows « appareils » 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 | appareils |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pa.ʁɛj\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,864 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appareils »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around appareils (IPA \a.pa.ʁɛj\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,864 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de appareil.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for appareils, with forms such as "apapreils", "apareils", and "appaerils". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "apparents", "appareil", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is appareils, spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-I-L-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de appareil.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appareils appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il ajouta donc à son invention maints ressorts et appareils qui permissent à l’ensemble de se mouvoir et qui, écrivent les chroniqueurs du temps, « reçurent agitation et mouvements ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apapreils
- apareils
- appaerils
- appareills
- appareilss
- appareisl
- apparelis
- appariels
- apparreils
- appraeils
- papareils
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appareils - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).