appréciable

\a.pʁe.sjabl\

/\a.pʁe.sjabl\/ adj

The verdict

“appréciable” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,069. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,069
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
15
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui peut être apprécié.

Corpus desk

Index FR-appreciable · appréciable · French

appréciable · rank #17,069 · 15 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-MID #17,069
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-HIGH 15 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Apollo

Nearest frequency peer: Apollo (-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 « appréciable »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « appréciable » 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).

appréciable vs appréciables
92% similar

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

Key facts for appréciable
PropertyValue
Headwordappréciable
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.pʁe.sjabl\
Letters11
Frequency rank#17,069
Misspellings tracked15
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appréciable »

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

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « Apollo » (#17,068), « archer » (#17,070), « anticorps » (#17,067). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appréciable » est au #17,069. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 15 spelling variants around appréciable (IPA \a.pʁe.sjabl\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,069 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for appréciable, with forms such as "apprcéiable", "appreciable", and "apprréciable". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "appréciables", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 appréciable, spelled A-P-P-R-É-C-I-A-B-L-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui peut être apprécié.
  2. 2
    Qui peut être apprécié par les sens ou avec le secours des procédés physiques ; dont on peut évaluer le poids, l’intensité, la durée, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Même s’ils sont plus ou moins fréquentés, les espaces verts de la cité angérienne sont appréciés… et appréciables.
  2. Cette quantité est si petite qu’elle n’est pas appréciable.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apprcéiable
  • appreciable
  • apprréciable
  • apprécaible
  • apprécciable
  • appréciabble
  • appréciabel
  • appréciablle
  • apprécialbe
  • apprécibale
  • appréicable
  • appérciable
  • aprpéciable
  • apréciable
  • papréciable

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appréciable - 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.

apprcéiable2appreciable1apprréciable1apprécaible2apprécciable1appréciabble1appréciabel2appréciablle1
Edit distance from "appréciable"

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 "appréciable"?
"appréciable" is spelled A-P-P-R-É-C-I-A-B-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pʁe.sjabl\.
What does "appréciable" mean?
As an adjective, "appréciable" means: Qui peut être apprécié.
What words are commonly confused with "appréciable"?
"appréciable" is commonly confused with "appréciables". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appréciable"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appréciable" is \a.pʁe.sjabl\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appréciable" come from?
"appréciable" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (15 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list