apparentait

\a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ\

/\a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“apparentait” is uncommon French (frequency #83,592 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#83,592
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe apparenter.

Corpus desk

Index FR-apparentait · apparentait · French

apparentait · rank #83,592 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #83,592
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH aos

Nearest frequency peer: aos (-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 « apparentait »

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 « apparentait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for apparentait
PropertyValue
Headwordapparentait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ\
Letters11
Frequency rank#83,592
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « apparentait » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).apparentaittombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « aos » (#83,591), « apprêtes » (#83,593), « antivols » (#83,590). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « apparentait » est au #83,592. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

apparentait is uncommon French at frequency #83,592 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe apparenter.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for apparentait, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is apparentait, spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-N-T-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe apparenter.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Les chansons où l’on pouvait ripouner avaient un bien plus grand succès que les autres, parce que les auditeurs aimaient bien à devenir chanteurs à leur tour, et également parce que le chanteur se sentait soutenu par une sorte de souffle populaire, irrésistible, jovial, qui s’apparentait lui-même au caractère de la chanson.

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 "apparentait"?
"apparentait" is spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-N-T-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ\.
What does "apparentait" mean?
As a verb, "apparentait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe apparenter.
How do you pronounce "apparentait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "apparentait" is \a.pa.ʁɑ̃.tɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list