applaudissons

\a.plo.di.sɔ̃\

/\a.plo.di.sɔ̃\/ verb

The verdict

“applaudissons” is uncommon French (frequency #86,417 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#86,417
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de applaudir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-applaudissons · applaudissons · French

applaudissons · rank #86,417 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #86,417
  • LEN-MEGA 13 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Appius

Nearest frequency peer: Appius (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « applaudissons »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « applaudissons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for applaudissons
PropertyValue
Headwordapplaudissons
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.plo.di.sɔ̃\
Letters13
Frequency rank#86,417
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « applaudissons » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).applaudissonstombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « Appius » (#86,416), « applicatifs » (#86,418), « appesantir » (#86,415). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « applaudissons » est au #86,417. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

applaudissons is uncommon French at frequency #86,417 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.plo.di.sɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for applaudissons, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is applaudissons, spelled A-P-P-L-A-U-D-I-S-S-O-N-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de applaudir.
  2. 2
    Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de applaudir.

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 "applaudissons"?
"applaudissons" is spelled A-P-P-L-A-U-D-I-S-S-O-N-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.plo.di.sɔ̃\.
What does "applaudissons" mean?
As a verb, "applaudissons" means: Première personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent de applaudir.
How do you pronounce "applaudissons"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "applaudissons" is \a.plo.di.sɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "applaudissons" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 13 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list