applied
\əˈplaɪd\
The verdict
“applied” is uncommon French (frequency #58,412 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,412
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit du verbe to apply.
Corpus desk
Index FR-applied · applied · French
applied · rank #58,412 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,412
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH APM
Nearest frequency peer: APM (-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 « applied »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anthropique
anthropique
41,592 corpus weight
- antipathie
antipathie
41,591 corpus weight
- APM
APM
41,590 corpus weight
- applied
applied
41,589 corpus weight
- arceaux
arceaux
41,588 corpus weight
- argenton
argenton
41,586 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « applied » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | applied |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \əˈplaɪd\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #58,412 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « applied » en français
Rare enough to double-check
applied is uncommon French at frequency #58,412 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \əˈplaɪd\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for applied, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is applied, spelled A-P-P-L-I-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit du verbe to apply.
- 2Participe passé du verbe to apply.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).