appose
\a.poz\
The verdict
“appose” is uncommon French (frequency #57,082 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,082
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apposer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appose · appose · French
appose · rank #57,082 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,082
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appliquaient
Nearest frequency peer: appliquaient (-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 « appose »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ants
ants
42,922 corpus weight
- apercevra
apercevra
42,921 corpus weight
- appliquaient
appliquaient
42,920 corpus weight
- appose
appose
42,919 corpus weight
- approach
approach
42,918 corpus weight
- approchera
approchera
42,917 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appose » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appose |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.poz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #57,082 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appose » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appose is uncommon French at frequency #57,082 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.poz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for appose in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
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. The correct French form is appose, spelled A-P-P-O-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apposer.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apposer.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe apposer.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe apposer.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe apposer.
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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