appâts

\a.pa\

/\a.pa\/ noun

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

corpus weight

What this shows « appâts » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

appâts vs apps
67% similar
appâts vs appris
67% similar
appâts vs appels
67% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for appâts
PropertyValue
Headwordappâts
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.pa\
Letters6
Frequency rank#46,579
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appâts »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).appâtsse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « ardennais » (#46,580), « Anubis » (#46,577), « argilo » (#46,581). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appâts » est au #46,579. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Pluriel de appât.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how appâts appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. 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.

appats1apptâs2appâst2appâtss1appâtts1apâpts2apâts1papâts2
Edit distance from "appâts"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "appâts"?
"appâts" is spelled A-P-P-Â-T-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pa\.
What does "appâts" mean?
As a noun, "appâts" means: Pluriel de appât.
What words are commonly confused with "appâts"?
"appâts" is commonly confused with "apps", "appris", "appels". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appâts"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appâts" is \a.pa\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appâts" come from?
"appâts" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "appâts", not the corpus desk frequency band.

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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list