appâter
\a.pa.te\
The verdict
“appâter” is uncommon French (frequency #55,750 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,750
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attirer avec un appât.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appater · appâter · French
appâter · rank #55,750 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,750
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apprêtaient
Nearest frequency peer: apprêtaient (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « appâter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appartiendr…
appartiendrait
44,255 corpus weight
- apprêtaient
apprêtaient
44,252 corpus weight
- appâter
appâter
44,251 corpus weight
- arabica
arabica
44,250 corpus weight
- archanges
archanges
44,249 corpus weight
- ascèse
ascèse
44,248 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appâter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appâter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pa.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #55,750 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appâter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appâter is uncommon French at frequency #55,750 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pa.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for appâter, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is appâter, spelled A-P-P-Â-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Attirer avec un appât.
- 2Mettre la pâture dans le bec des petits oiseaux.
- 3ou Attirer, séduire
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appâter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Appâter les oiseaux, les poissons.
Au Ghana, les fruits charnus sont utilisés pour appâter les oiseaux dans des pièges.
This word in other languages
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.
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