appréciaient
\a.pʁe.sjɛ\
The verdict
“appréciaient” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,338. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,338
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe apprécier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appreciaient · appréciaient · French
appréciaient · rank #48,338 · 16 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,338
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appréciables
Nearest frequency peer: appréciables (-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 « appréciaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aol
aol
51,666 corpus weight
- aortique
aortique
51,665 corpus weight
- appréciables
appréciables
51,664 corpus weight
- appréciaient
appréciaient
51,663 corpus weight
- appuiera
appuiera
51,662 corpus weight
- Arbois
Arbois
51,660 corpus weight
What this shows « appréciaient » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appréciaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁe.sjɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #48,338 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appréciaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around appréciaient (IPA \a.pʁe.sjɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #48,338 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe apprécier.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for appréciaient, with forms such as "apprcéiaient", "appreciaient", and "apprréciaient". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "apprécient", "appréciait", "appréciant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is appréciaient, spelled A-P-P-R-É-C-I-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe apprécier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appréciaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eux aussi appréciaient la belle ouvrage, le bord bien tiré, le cap suivi au mètre près, le foc impeccablement étarqué, ni trop, ni trop peu, la voile serrée à la limite du frisottage de ses parties supérieures.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apprcéiaient
- appreciaient
- apprréciaient
- apprécaiient
- apprécciaient
- appréciaeint
- appréciaiennt
- appréciaientt
- appréciaietn
- appréciainet
- appréciiaent
- appréicaient
- appérciaient
- aprpéciaient
- apréciaient
- papréciaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appréciaient - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).