appauvrie
\a.pɔ.vʁi\
The verdict
“appauvrie” is uncommon French (frequency #69,587 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #69,587
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de appauvrir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appauvrie · appauvrie · French
appauvrie · rank #69,587 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #69,587
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apothicaires
Nearest frequency peer: apothicaires (-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 « appauvrie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Andaman
Andaman
30,417 corpus weight
- annoncerai
annoncerai
30,416 corpus weight
- apothicaires
apothicaires
30,415 corpus weight
- appauvrie
appauvrie
30,414 corpus weight
- apprivoisée
apprivoisée
30,413 corpus weight
- Arabian
Arabian
30,412 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appauvrie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appauvrie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pɔ.vʁi\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #69,587 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appauvrie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appauvrie is uncommon French at frequency #69,587 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pɔ.vʁi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de appauvrir.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for appauvrie, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is appauvrie, spelled A-P-P-A-U-V-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de appauvrir.
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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