appétit
\a.pe.ti\
The verdict
“appétit” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,463. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #6,463
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désir sélectif pour combler une sensation de faim, en parlant de l’alimentation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appetit · appétit · French
appétit · rank #6,463 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #6,463
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appliquée
Nearest frequency peer: appliquée (-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 « appétit »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- angoisse
angoisse
93,541 corpus weight
- appartienne…
appartiennent
93,540 corpus weight
- appliquée
appliquée
93,539 corpus weight
- appétit
appétit
93,538 corpus weight
- arracher
arracher
93,537 corpus weight
- balade
balade
93,536 corpus weight
What this shows « appétit » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appétit |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pe.ti\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #6,463 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appétit »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around appétit (IPA \a.pe.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #6,463 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for appétit, with forms such as "appetit", "apptéit", and "appéitt". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "apprit", "appétits", "apprêtait", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is appétit, spelled A-P-P-É-T-I-T.
Definition
- 1Désir sélectif pour combler une sensation de faim, en parlant de l’alimentation.
- 2Désir d’une chose pour la satisfaction d’un besoin ou d’une envie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appétit appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C’est bien, répliqua Raoule de la même voix indifférente, je vous souhaite, à tous les deux, le meilleur des appétits !
Après l’incubation […], il sort de chaque œuf un mince ver filiforme qui témoigne d’un vif appétit.
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appetit
- apptéit
- appéitt
- appétitt
- appétti
- appéttit
- apéptit
- apétit
- papétit
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appétit - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "appétit", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).