appeau
\a.po\
The verdict
“appeau” is uncommon French (frequency #98,743 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,743
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de sifflet avec lequel on contrefait la voix des oiseaux pour les faire approcher ou pour les attirer dans quelque piège.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appeau · appeau · French
appeau · rank #98,743 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,743
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apparaîtraient
Nearest frequency peer: apparaîtraient (-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 « appeau »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Anzeiger
Anzeiger
1,261 corpus weight
- Apamée
Apamée
1,260 corpus weight
- apparaîtrai…
apparaîtraient
1,259 corpus weight
- appeau
appeau
1,258 corpus weight
- applicative
applicative
1,257 corpus weight
- appuyais
appuyais
1,256 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appeau » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appeau |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.po\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #98,743 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appeau » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appeau is uncommon French at frequency #98,743 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.po\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
appeau has no tracked misspelling variants, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 appeau, spelled A-P-P-E-A-U.
Definition
- 1Sorte de sifflet avec lequel on contrefait la voix des oiseaux pour les faire approcher ou pour les attirer dans quelque piège.
- 2Oiseau dont on se sert pour appeler et attirer les autres oiseaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appeau appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un appeau pour prendre des cailles.
Ils parlaient […] de la chasse à la palombe, des appeaux qu’il faudrait bientôt monter, car les ramiers, qui précèdent les palombes, ne tarderaient pas.
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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