appliqua
\a.pli.ka\
The verdict
“appliqua” is uncommon French (frequency #59,076 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,076
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appliquer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appliqua · appliqua · French
appliqua · rank #59,076 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,076
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appareiller
Nearest frequency peer: appareiller (-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 « appliqua »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apaisent
apaisent
40,928 corpus weight
- apparais
apparais
40,927 corpus weight
- appareiller
appareiller
40,926 corpus weight
- appliqua
appliqua
40,925 corpus weight
- argentier
argentier
40,923 corpus weight
- artificier
artificier
40,922 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appliqua » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appliqua |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pli.ka\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #59,076 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appliqua » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appliqua is uncommon French at frequency #59,076 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pli.ka\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appliquer.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for appliqua in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is appliqua, spelled A-P-P-L-I-Q-U-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appliquer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appliqua appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce n’est que plus tard qu’il s’appliqua à l’indigénéiser.
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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