applause
\əˈplɔːz\
The verdict
“applause” is uncommon French (frequency #90,402 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,402
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Applaudissement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-applause · applause · French
applause · rank #90,402 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,402
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apologies
Nearest frequency peer: apologies (-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 « applause »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anticolonia…
anticolonialiste
9,602 corpus weight
- antirides
antirides
9,601 corpus weight
- apologies
apologies
9,600 corpus weight
- applause
applause
9,599 corpus weight
- apporterez
apporterez
9,598 corpus weight
- approuvaient
approuvaient
9,597 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « applause » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | applause |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \əˈplɔːz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #90,402 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « applause » en français
Rare enough to double-check
applause is uncommon French at frequency #90,402 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \əˈplɔːz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Applaudissement.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for applause, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is applause, spelled A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1Applaudissement.
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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