appesantir
\a.pə.zɑ̃.tiʁ\
The verdict
“appesantir” is uncommon French (frequency #86,415 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,415
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre plus pesant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appesantir · appesantir · French
appesantir · rank #86,415 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,415
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aphtes
Nearest frequency peer: aphtes (-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 « appesantir »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apaisantes
apaisantes
13,589 corpus weight
- aperçurent
aperçurent
13,588 corpus weight
- aphtes
aphtes
13,587 corpus weight
- appesantir
appesantir
13,586 corpus weight
- Appius
Appius
13,585 corpus weight
- applaudisso…
applaudissons
13,584 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appesantir » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appesantir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pə.zɑ̃.tiʁ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #86,415 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appesantir » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appesantir is uncommon French at frequency #86,415 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pə.zɑ̃.tiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for appesantir, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is appesantir, spelled A-P-P-E-S-A-N-T-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre plus pesant.
- 2Rendre moins propre à l’exercice des facultés physiques ou intellectuelles.
- 3Devenir plus pesant.
- 4Porter tout le poids de son attention sur un sujet, le développer avec insistance; s’arrêter trop longtemps sur des détails.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appesantir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’eau avait tellement appesanti ses habits qu’il avait peine à marcher.
En chargeant ainsi votre voiture, vous l’appesantirez tellement que votre cheval ne pourra la traîner.
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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