apparel
\ə.ˈpæɹ.əl\
The verdict
“apparel” is uncommon French (frequency #73,716 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,716
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vêtements, tenue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apparel · apparel · French
apparel · rank #73,716 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,716
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appauvris
Nearest frequency peer: appauvris (+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 « apparel »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anu
anu
26,289 corpus weight
- apartment
apartment
26,288 corpus weight
- apparel
apparel
26,285 corpus weight
- appauvris
appauvris
26,284 corpus weight
- aries
aries
26,282 corpus weight
- aromathérap…
aromathérapie
26,281 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apparel » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apparel |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ə.ˈpæɹ.əl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #73,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apparel » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apparel is uncommon French at frequency #73,716 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ə.ˈpæɹ.əl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Vêtements, tenue.".
apparel has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is apparel, spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-L.
Definition
- 1Vêtements, tenue.
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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