appétence

\a.pe.tɑ̃s\

/\a.pe.tɑ̃s\/ noun

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The verdict

“appétence” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #44,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#44,863
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tendance de tout être vers ce qui peut satisfaire ses instincts et ses besoins, surtout physiques.

Corpus desk

Index FR-appetence · appétence · French

appétence · rank #44,863 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #44,863
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH appréciais

Nearest frequency peer: appréciais (-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 « appétence »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « appétence » 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).

appétence vs apparence
78% similar

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

Key facts for appétence
PropertyValue
Headwordappétence
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.pe.tɑ̃s\
Letters9
Frequency rank#44,863
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appétence »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).appétencese place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « appréciais » (#44,862), « aquariums » (#44,864), « applaudissement » (#44,861). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appétence » est au #44,863. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around appétence (IPA \a.pe.tɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #44,863 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for appétence, with forms such as "appetence", "apptéence", and "appéetnce". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "apparence", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is appétence, spelled A-P-P-É-T-E-N-C-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Tendance de tout être vers ce qui peut satisfaire ses instincts et ses besoins, surtout physiques.
  2. 2
    Attirance pour ce qui peut satisfaire un besoin ou une envie.
  3. 3
    Désir d’usage ou d’achat ressenti par l’individu pour un produit ou une marque.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Un taux d’humidité élevé entraîne une trop grande production d’acide butyrique, ce qui risque de réduire l’appétence du fourrage, d’accroître les pertes et de provoquer une cétose subclinique chez les vaches laitières.
  2. … une femme bien plus jeune que lui, aux appétences bien au-delà de ses moyens.

This word in other languages

appetite(English)apetencia(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • appetence
  • apptéence
  • appéetnce
  • appétecne
  • appétencce
  • appétenec
  • appétennce
  • appétnece
  • appéttence
  • apéptence
  • apétence
  • papétence

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appétence - 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.

appetence1apptéence2appéetnce2appétecne2appétencce1appétenec2appétennce1appétnece2
Edit distance from "appétence"

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 "appétence"?
"appétence" is spelled A-P-P-É-T-E-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pe.tɑ̃s\.
What does "appétence" mean?
As a noun, "appétence" means: Tendance de tout être vers ce qui peut satisfaire ses instincts et ses besoins, surtout physiques.
What words are commonly confused with "appétence"?
"appétence" is commonly confused with "apparence". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appétence"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appétence" is \a.pe.tɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appétence" come from?
"appétence" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

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

aquariums#44,864adjacents#44,844adduction#44,843Bellemare#44,890

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

activity12 variantsétouffent12 variantsbosniaque12 variantscathares12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list