apparier
French, verb/a.pa.ʁje/
apparier is spelled A-P-P-A-R-I-E-R (8 letters) and appears about once in every 19 million words in written French, the 141,352nd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Apparier is a French verb meaning “to pair or match” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Assortir par paires, par couples, joindre des choses qui se conviennent, qui sont faites pour aller ensemble”.
What does apparier mean in English?
verb
- 1
to pair or match
- 2
to couple or mate
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
verb: 1. Assortir par paires, par couples, joindre des choses qui se conviennent, qui sont faites pour aller ensemble. 2. Accoupler le mâle avec la femelle de certains oiseaux.
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 apparier
- avoir + past participle infinitive multiword-construction
- appariant gerund participle present
- ayant + past participle gerund multiword-construction participle
- apparié participle past
- apparie first-person indicative present
- apparies indicative present second-person
- apparions first-person indicative plural
- appariez indicative plural present
- apparient indicative plural present
- appariais first-person imperfect indicative
- appariait imperfect indicative singular
- appariions first-person imperfect indicative
- appariiez imperfect indicative plural
- appariaient imperfect indicative plural
- appariai first-person historic indicative
- apparias historic indicative past
- apparia historic indicative past
- appariâmes first-person historic indicative
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce apparier?
- /a.pa.ʁje/
- \a.pa.ʁje\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is apparier in French?
apparier appears about once in every 19 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).