appesantir
\a.pə.zɑ̃.tiʁ\
The verdict
“appesantir” is uncommon French (frequency #86,415 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,415
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Rendre plus pesant.
| 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) |
Where “appesantir” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
appesantir is uncommon French at frequency #86,415 among 424,905 “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.
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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Using “appesantir”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-P-P-E-S-A-N-T-I-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.