appliquer

/\a.pli.ke\/ verb

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.

Key facts for appliquer
PropertyValue
Headwordappliquer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pli.ke\
Letters9
Frequency rank#2,702
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs7
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of appliquer in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    Employer une chose dans les cas où il convient d’en faire usage.
  3. 3
    Faire 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.
  4. 4
    Faire usage des principes ou des procédés d’une science pour étendre et perfectionner une autre science.
  5. 5
    Destiner ou consacrer à un certain usage.
  6. 6
    Poser sa candidature.
  7. 7
    Apporter une grande attention à quelque chose.
  8. 8
    Être appliqué à faire quelque chose.
  9. 9
    Se 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"

apliquer8aplpiquer9appilquer9appliqeur9appliqquer10appliquerr10appliqure9appliuqer9
Misspelling Variants of "appliquer"

Frequency rank: #2,702 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "appliquer"?
"appliquer" is spelled A-P-P-L-I-Q-U-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pli.ke\.
What does "appliquer" mean?
As a verb, "appliquer" 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.
What words are commonly confused with "appliquer"?
"appliquer" is commonly confused with "appliques", "appliquez", "appliquera". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appliquer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appliquer" is \a.pli.ke\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appliquer" come from?
"appliquer" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.