appâts
\a.pa\
The verdict
“appâts” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #46,579. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #46,579
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 14
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de appât.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appats · appâts · French
appâts · rank #46,579 · 8 variants · 14 confusables
- FREQ-MID #46,579
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ardennais
Nearest frequency peer: ardennais (+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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « appâts »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- answer
answer
53,425 corpus weight
- Anubis
Anubis
53,424 corpus weight
- appâts
appâts
53,422 corpus weight
- ardennais
ardennais
53,421 corpus weight
- argilo
argilo
53,420 corpus weight
- Armelle
Armelle
53,419 corpus weight
What this shows « appâts » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | appâts |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #46,579 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 14 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appâts »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around appâts (IPA \a.pa\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #46,579 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de appât.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for appâts, with forms such as "appats", "apptâs", and "appâst". 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 14 confusable-pair relationships, "apps", "appris", "appels", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is appâts, spelled A-P-P-Â-T-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de appât.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appâts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sur le fond, et autour de l’aquarium, des présentoirs exhibaient les attirails, des plus simples aux plus compliqués : gaules en bambou, cannes en fibre de verre, grandes cannes télescopiques pour moulinet à tambour tournant, boîtes de mouches et de cuillères, d’hameçons et de plombs, devons, moulinets de tous calibres, montures pour poissons morts, dégor…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appats
- apptâs
- appâst
- appâtss
- appâtts
- apâpts
- apâts
- papâts
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appâts - 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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).