appas
French, noun/a.pa/
appas is spelled A-P-P-A-S (5 letters) and appears about once in every 17 million words in written French, the 135,114th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Appas is a French masculine noun meaning “charms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pâture que l’on met soit à des pièges, pour attirer des quadrupèdes ou des oiseaux, soit à des hameçons, pour…”.
What does appas mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculinecharms
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pâture que l’on met soit à des pièges, pour attirer des quadrupèdes ou des oiseaux, soit à des hameçons, pour pêcher des poissons. 2. Procédé destiné à tromper, séduire, attirer. 3. Caractéristique d’une personne qui suscite une attirance sexuelle.
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 appas
- appât
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce appas?
- /a.pa/
- /a.pɑ/
- \a.pa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is appas in French?
appas appears about once in every 17 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).