appliquent

\a.plik\

/\a.plik\/ verb

The verdict

“appliquent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,497. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,497
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
13
tracked misspellings
11
confusable pairs

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

Corpus desk

Index FR-appliquent · appliquent · French

appliquent · rank #8,497 · 13 variants · 11 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,497
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 13 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH annoncent

Nearest frequency peer: annoncent (-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 « appliquent »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « appliquent » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

appliquent vs appliquer
80% similar
appliquent vs appliques
80% similar
appliquent vs appliquez
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for appliquent
PropertyValue
Headwordappliquent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.plik\
Letters10
Frequency rank#8,497
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs11
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appliquent »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.appliquentse place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « annoncent » (#8,496), « arrache » (#8,498), « anneaux » (#8,495). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appliquent » est au #8,497. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 13 spelling variants around appliquent (IPA \a.plik\), averb. Corpus frequency is #8,497 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for appliquent, with forms such as "apliquent", "aplpiquent", and "appilquent". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "appliquer", "appliques", "appliquez", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is appliquent, spelled A-P-P-L-I-Q-U-E-N-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appliquer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe appliquer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how appliquent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il n’existe pas de définition unique du terme « tout gros ». Certains l’appliquent aux poissons géants de plus de 135 kg.
  2. Et au risque de trop « rabelaisianiser » Perec, il nous semble aujourd’hui que les réflexions que nous avons faites alors au sujet de l’œuvre de Rabelais s’appliquent aussi à La Vie mode d’emploi : « Prometteuse de significations profondes, l’écriture rabelaisienne détient-elle un sens abscons, ou n’en est-elle que le simulacre ? Est-elle mystère ou mysti…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apliquent
  • aplpiquent
  • appilquent
  • appliqeunt
  • appliqquent
  • appliquennt
  • appliquentt
  • appliquetn
  • appliqunet
  • appliuqent
  • applliquent
  • applqiuent
  • papliquent

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appliquent - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

apliquent1aplpiquent2appilquent2appliqeunt2appliqquent1appliquennt1appliquentt1appliquetn2
Edit distance from "appliquent"

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 "appliquent"?
"appliquent" is spelled A-P-P-L-I-Q-U-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.plik\.
What does "appliquent" mean?
As a verb, "appliquent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe appliquer.
What words are commonly confused with "appliquent"?
"appliquent" is commonly confused with "appliquer", "appliques", "appliquez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appliquent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appliquent" is \a.plik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appliquent" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list