appétif
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The verdict
“appétif” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Concupiscible.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appetif · appétif · French
appétif · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appétif |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.pe.tif\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appétif » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appétif is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.pe.tif\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Concupiscible.".
No misspelling variants are generated for appétif in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is appétif, spelled A-P-P-É-T-I-F.
Definition
- 1Concupiscible.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appétif appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Cette théorie s’est principalement penchée sur l’aspect appétif de la motivation.
Le Système limbique est un ensemble de structures anciennes du cerveau, notamment les noyaux dits de l’hippocampe et de l’amygdale. Le système limbique intervient dans de multiples activités cérébrales. Il semble, tout d’abord, exercer une action fondamentale dans le contrôle des réponses émotionnelles : rage, peur, joie, etc. Or, par l’intermédiaire de l…
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Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.