appât
French, noun/a.pa/
appât is spelled A-P-P-Â-T (5 letters) and appears 1.9 times per million words in written French, the 21,266th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Appât is a French masculine noun meaning “charms” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Pâture qu’on met soit à des pièges, pour attirer des quadrupèdes ou des oiseaux, soit à des hameçons, pour…”.
What does appât mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineobsoletelure
- 2
archaicmasculine(sexual) temptation
- 3
masculinecharms
- 4
masculinebait
- 5
masculinefeint
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Pâture qu’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 appât
- appâts plural
- appas plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce appât?
- /a.pa/
- /a.pɑ/
- \a.pɑ\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to appât
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is appât in French?
appât appears 1.9 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).