applaudir
\a.plo.diʁ\
The verdict
“applaudir” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,852. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,852
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Battre des mains en signe d’approbation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-applaudir · applaudir · French
applaudir · rank #14,852 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,852
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Anton
Nearest frequency peer: Anton (-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 « applaudir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- animatrice
animatrice
85,152 corpus weight
- annexion
annexion
85,151 corpus weight
- Anton
Anton
85,150 corpus weight
- applaudir
applaudir
85,149 corpus weight
- appliquant
appliquant
85,148 corpus weight
- aquarium
aquarium
85,147 corpus weight
What this shows « applaudir » 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 | applaudir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.plo.diʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #14,852 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « applaudir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around applaudir (IPA \a.plo.diʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #14,852 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for applaudir, with forms such as "aplaudir", "aplpaudir", and "appaludir". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "applaudit", "applaudis", "applaudi", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is applaudir, spelled A-P-P-L-A-U-D-I-R.
Definition
- 1Battre des mains en signe d’approbation.
- 2Donner son complet assentiment à une chose, en ce sens, il est le plus souvent suivi de la préposition « à ».
- 3Battre des mains en signe d’approbation à l'adresse de quelqu'un ou de quelque chose.
- 4Se vanter, se glorifier.
- 5Se féliciter de quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how applaudir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Des gens applaudirent à la fin.
[…] et, si elles ont été portées à applaudir à la sagacité du philosophe, elles ont été sur le point de condamner la philosophie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplaudir
- aplpaudir
- appaludir
- appladuir
- applauddir
- applaudirr
- applaudri
- applauidr
- appllaudir
- appluadir
- paplaudir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of applaudir - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).