appliquer
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#2,702
in French word usage
Misspellings
11
tracked variants
Confusables
7
similar word pairs
appliquer is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre une chose sur une autre, soit pour qu’elle y demeure adhérente, soit pour qu’elle y laisse une empreinte, soit simplement pour qu’elle y touche. Pronounced \a.pli.ke\. It ranks #2,702 in French word frequency. Often confused with appliques and appliquez.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appliquer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pli.ke\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #2,702 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for appliquer is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pli.ke\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,702 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 11 documented wrong-spelling variants for appliquer, with forms such as "apliquer", "aplpiquer", and "appilquer". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 7 confusable-pair relationships, "appliques", "appliquez", "appliquera", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is appliquer, spelled A-P-P-L-I-Q-U-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre une chose sur une autre, soit pour qu’elle y demeure adhérente, soit pour qu’elle y laisse une empreinte, soit simplement pour qu’elle y touche.
- 2Employer une chose dans les cas où il convient d’en faire usage.
- 3Faire usage d’une loi, d’un principe, etc., dans les cas auxquels ils conviennent ou semblent convenir, et des comparaisons, des passages, des citations que l’on adapte à quelque sujet.
- 4Faire usage des principes ou des procédés d’une science pour étendre et perfectionner une autre science.
- 5Destiner ou consacrer à un certain usage.
- 6Poser sa candidature.
- 7Apporter une grande attention à quelque chose.
- 8Être appliqué à faire quelque chose.
- 9Se poser sur, se placer, aller à.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apliquer,aplpiquer,appilquer,appliqeur,appliqquer,appliquerr,appliqure,appliuqer,applliquer,applqiuer,papliquer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for appliquer
Misspelling Variants of "appliquer"
Frequency rank: #2,702 in French
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