appauvrissent

\a.pɔ.vʁis\

/\a.pɔ.vʁis\/ verb

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The verdict

“appauvrissent” is uncommon French (frequency #70,386 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,386
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appauvrir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-appauvrissent · appauvrissent · French

appauvrissent · rank #70,386 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,386
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Antti

Nearest frequency peer: Antti (-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 « appauvrissent »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appauvrissent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for appauvrissent
PropertyValue
Headwordappauvrissent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pɔ.vʁis\
Letters13
Frequency rank#70,386
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « appauvrissent » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.appauvrissenttombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Antti » (#70,385), « apprivoise » (#70,387), « antisystème » (#70,384). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appauvrissent » est au #70,386. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

appauvrissent is uncommon French at frequency #70,386 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pɔ.vʁis\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for appauvrissent, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is appauvrissent, spelled A-P-P-A-U-V-R-I-S-S-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appauvrir.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif imparfait du verbe appauvrir.
  3. 3
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe 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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "appauvrissent"?
"appauvrissent" is spelled A-P-P-A-U-V-R-I-S-S-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pɔ.vʁis\.
What does "appauvrissent" mean?
As a verb, "appauvrissent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appauvrir.
How do you pronounce "appauvrissent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appauvrissent" is \a.pɔ.vʁis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appauvrissent" come from?
"appauvrissent" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

antipersonnel#70,383anticancéreux#70,380affectionnent#70,359bonapartistes#70,438

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list