appartenir
Letters
10 characters
Frequency Rank
#12,305
in French word usage
Misspellings
13
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
appartenir is aFrenchverb. It means: Être la propriété légitime de quelqu’un, que celui à qui est la chose l’ait en sa possession ou non. Pronounced \a.paʁ.tə.niʁ\. Often confused with appartenu and appartenait.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appartenir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.paʁ.tə.niʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #12,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for appartenir is 10 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.paʁ.tə.niʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #12,305 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for appartenir, with forms such as "apaprtenir", "apartenir", and "apparetnir". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "appartenu", "appartenait", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is appartenir, spelled A-P-P-A-R-T-E-N-I-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Être la propriété légitime de quelqu’un, que celui à qui est la chose l’ait en sa possession ou non.
- 2Être parent de quelqu’un ou attaché à son service.
- 3Être le droit, le privilège ou le propre, le caractère particulier de quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
- 4Incomber.
- 5Par manière de reproche.
- 6Faire partie de.
- 7Avoir une relation nécessaire ou de convenance.
- 8Être élément de
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apaprtenir,apartenir,apparetnir,apparrtenir,apparteinr,appartenirr,appartennir,appartenri,appartneir,apparttenir,appatrenir,appratenir,papartenir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for appartenir
Misspelling Variants of "appartenir"
Frequency rank: #12,305 in French
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