applique
\a.plik\
The verdict
“applique” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,236. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #3,236
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tout ce qui est appliqué, fixé sur un objet pour le décorer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-applique · applique · French
applique · rank #3,236 · 9 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #3,236
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anglaise
Nearest frequency peer: anglaise (-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 « applique »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- actifs
actifs
96,768 corpus weight
- adulte
adulte
96,767 corpus weight
- anglaise
anglaise
96,766 corpus weight
- applique
applique
96,765 corpus weight
- assis
assis
96,764 corpus weight
- battu
battu
96,763 corpus weight
What this shows « applique » 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 | applique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.plik\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #3,236 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « applique »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around applique (IPA \a.plik\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,236 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for applique, with forms such as "aplique", "aplpique", and "appilque". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "appliquer", "appliquée", "appliques", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
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 applique, spelled A-P-P-L-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Tout ce qui est appliqué, fixé sur un objet pour le décorer.
- 2Luminaire appliqué au mur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how applique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Pièces d’applique.
L’or, l’argent et autres métaux laminés sont mis en applique sur les meubles, sur les moulures d’une corniche, etc.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplique
- aplpique
- appilque
- appliqeu
- appliqque
- appliuqe
- appllique
- applqiue
- paplique
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of applique - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).