appât
\a.pɑ\
The verdict
“appât” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #21,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,239
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pâture qu’on met soit à des pièges, pour attirer des quadrupèdes ou des oiseaux, soit à des hameçons, pour pêcher des poissons.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appat · appât · French
appât · rank #21,239 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,239
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apanage
Nearest frequency peer: apanage (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “appât”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- amicales
amicales
78,766 corpus weight
- anecdotique
anecdotique
78,765 corpus weight
- Anita
Anita
78,764 corpus weight
- apanage
apanage
78,763 corpus weight
- appât
appât
78,762 corpus weight
- Argenteuil
Argenteuil
78,760 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “appât” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appât |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pɑ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #21,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “appât” sits in French frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around appât (IPA \a.pɑ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #21,239 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for appât, with forms such as "appat", "apptâ", and "appâtt". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "apt", "apps", "appel", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is appât, spelled A-P-P-Â-T.
Definition
- 1Pâture qu’on met soit à des pièges, pour attirer des quadrupèdes ou des oiseaux, soit à des hameçons, pour pêcher des poissons.
- 2Procédé destiné à tromper, séduire, attirer.
- 3Caractéristique d’une personne qui suscite une attirance sexuelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appât appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On a inventé des pièges de formes variées dont on se sert pour prendre les rongeurs et les petits carnassiers en les amorçant à l'aide d’appâts appropriés au goût de chaque espèce.
Mais à peine y touche-t-elle que le piquet qui soutient la porte attiré par la petite corde qui tient lʼappât, venant à tomber, cette porte chargée de bois et conséquemment fort pesante lui tombe sur les reins et lʼécrase.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appat
- apptâ
- appâtt
- apâpt
- apât
- papât
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appât - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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.
PlainSpell is rendered directly from structured Wiktionary extracts and open word-frequency lists, no number is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 3, 2026. Primary sources: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) and FrequencyWords.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "appât", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
You've looked up "appât". Here's where to go from here.
- "appât" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "apt". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #21,239 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.