appendice

\a.pɛ̃.dis\

/\a.pɛ̃.dis\/ noun

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The verdict

“appendice” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#26,261
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui semble appendu, ajouté à une autre chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-appendice · appendice · French

appendice · rank #26,261 · 11 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #26,261
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH appellerait

Nearest frequency peer: appellerait (-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 « appendice »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « appendice » 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).

appendice vs appendices
90% similar
appendice vs appendicite
82% similar

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

Key facts for appendice
PropertyValue
Headwordappendice
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.pɛ̃.dis\
Letters9
Frequency rank#26,261
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appendice »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).appendicese place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « appellerait » (#26,260), « appliquera » (#26,262), « annexée » (#26,259). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appendice » est au #26,261. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around appendice (IPA \a.pɛ̃.dis\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #26,261 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 7 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for appendice, with forms such as "apendice", "apepndice", and "appednice". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "appendices", "appendicite", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is appendice, spelled A-P-P-E-N-D-I-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ce qui semble appendu, ajouté à une autre chose.
  2. 2
    Texte ajouté à la fin d’un ouvrage et qui contient soit des remarques, soit des documents qui n’ont pas trouvé place dans l’ouvrage.
  3. 3
    Toute partie qui semble être une addition, qui sert de prolongement à un organe.
  4. 4
    Nom courant de l’appendice iléo-cæcal ou appendice vermiforme ou vermiculaire.
  5. 5
    Élément en saillie de la structure principale d’un véhicule spatial.
  6. 6
    Appendice de coque : tout accessoire qui dépasse de la forme générale de la coque : gouvernail, plan anti-dérive ou antiroulis, arbre, hélice, sonar, sondeur, loch à hélice ou à tube de Pitot, etc.
  7. 7
    Flèche rattachée à la bulle indiquant le personnage qui parle, ou ronds en ligne quand le personnage pense ou rêve.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. […] ; de même que le travail de rouir, tiller et peigner le chanvre, saler ou sécher le poisson , etc. , passe pour un appendice de l'industrie de ceux qui récoltent le chanvre, ou qui pêchent le poisson.
  2. Les religieux de Stavelot, seigneurs tréfonciers de Chooz et de ses appendices, lèvent les amendes à Chooz, dont ils donnent le tiers à Gérard de Jauche, seigneur de Hierges, qui, depuis dix-huit ans, s'est emparé de différents revenus.

This word in other languages

appendage(English)apéndice(Español)Anhang(Deutsch)apêndice(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apendice
  • apepndice
  • appednice
  • appendcie
  • appenddice
  • appendicce
  • appendiec
  • appenidce
  • appenndice
  • appnedice
  • papendice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appendice - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

apendice1apepndice2appednice2appendcie2appenddice1appendicce1appendiec2appenidce2
Edit distance from "appendice"

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 "appendice"?
"appendice" is spelled A-P-P-E-N-D-I-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pɛ̃.dis\.
What does "appendice" mean?
As a noun, "appendice" means: Ce qui semble appendu, ajouté à une autre chose.
What words are commonly confused with "appendice"?
"appendice" is commonly confused with "appendices", "appendicite". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appendice"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appendice" is \a.pɛ̃.dis\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appendice" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

admettent#26,244chanceuse#26,292chaussons#26,295commentée#26,302

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

bergère11 variantsbreveté11 variantsBrossard11 variantsablation11 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list