appendice

/\a.pɛ̃.dis\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#26,261

in French word usage

Misspellings

11

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

appendice is aFrenchnoun. It means: Ce qui semble appendu, ajouté à une autre chose. Pronounced \a.pɛ̃.dis\. Often confused with appendices and appendicite.

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)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of appendice in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for appendice is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pɛ̃.dis\. Corpus data places it at rank #26,261 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for appendice, with forms such as "apendice", "apepndice", and "appednice". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, 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.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is appendice, spelled A-P-P-E-N-D-I-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

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.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: apendice,apepndice,appednice,appendcie,appenddice,appendicce,appendiec,appenidce,appenndice,appnedice,papendice

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for appendice

Misspelling Variants of "appendice"

apendice8apepndice9appednice9appendcie9appenddice10appendicce10appendiec9appenidce9
Misspelling Variants of "appendice"

Frequency rank: #26,261 in French

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?
"appendice" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.