appréhendais
\a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɛ\
The verdict
“appréhendais” is uncommon French (frequency #79,936 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,936
- 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 imparfait du verbe appréhender.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apprehendais · appréhendais · French
appréhendais · rank #79,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,936
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH approfondissa…
Nearest frequency peer: approfondissant (-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 « appréhendais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apportais
apportais
20,068 corpus weight
- approfondis…
approfondissant
20,066 corpus weight
- appréhendais
appréhendais
20,065 corpus weight
- Arbeit
Arbeit
20,064 corpus weight
- archaïsmes
archaïsmes
20,063 corpus weight
- arcos
arcos
20,062 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appréhendais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appréhendais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #79,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appréhendais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appréhendais is uncommon French at frequency #79,936 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pʁe.ɑ̃.dɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for appréhendais, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is appréhendais, spelled A-P-P-R-É-H-E-N-D-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appréhender.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appréhender.
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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