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apparentement

French, noun/a.pa.ʁɑ̃t.mɑ̃/

apparentement is spelled A-P-P-A-R-E-N-T-E-M-E-N-T (13 letters) and appears about once in every 12 million words in written French, the 114,550th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apparentement is a French masculine noun meaning “similarity, apparentness” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Action d’apparenter ou de s’apparenter ; résultat de cette action”.

What does apparentement mean in English?

noun

  1. 1

    masculinesimilarity, apparentness

Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How French dictionaries define it

noun: 1. Action d’apparenter ou de s’apparenter ; résultat de cette action. 2. Forme d'alliance électorale ou parlementaire permettant le rattachement d'une personnalité politique minoritaire à un parti plus important.

The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.

Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.

Forms of apparentement

  • apparentements plural

Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).

How do you pronounce apparentement?

  • /a.pa.ʁɑ̃t.mɑ̃/
  • \a.pa.ʁɑ̃t.mɑ̃\

Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.

How common is apparentement in French?

apparentement appears about once in every 12 million words in written French.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

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