apprendre
\a.pʁɑ̃dʁ\
The verdict
“apprendre” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #956. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #956
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Acquérir une connaissance ou un savoir-faire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apprendre · apprendre · French
apprendre · rank #956 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #956
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Adresse
Nearest frequency peer: Adresse (-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 « apprendre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- vendredi
vendredi
99,048 corpus weight
- Adresse
Adresse
99,046 corpus weight
- apprendre
apprendre
99,045 corpus weight
- attaque
attaque
99,044 corpus weight
- ceci
ceci
99,042 corpus weight
- court
court
99,041 corpus weight
What this shows « apprendre » 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 | apprendre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁɑ̃dʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #956 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « apprendre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around apprendre (IPA \a.pʁɑ̃dʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #956 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 8 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for apprendre, with forms such as "apperndre", "apprednre", and "apprenddre". 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 8 confusable-pair relationships, "apprends", "apprenne", "apprentie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 apprendre, spelled A-P-P-R-E-N-D-R-E.
Definition
- 1Acquérir une connaissance ou un savoir-faire.
- 2Contracter une disposition ou une habitude.
- 3Connaître par une information.
- 4Retenir dans sa mémoire.
- 5Enseigner, donner quelque connaissance à une personne, faire savoir.
- 6Éduquer par la menace.
- 7Donner une leçon ; tenir lieu de punition.
- 8Développer ses connaissances.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apprendre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Comme je paraissais faible et que je boitais un peu, ma mère avait voulu me faire apprendre un métier plus doux que ceux de notre village ; […].
Ce sont des harrâba, des soldats dressés à Gibraltar pour servir d’instructeurs à leurs camarades; mais ils se sont empressés d’oublier ce qu’ils avaient appris et ne se distinguent guère des autres troupiers marocains.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apperndre
- apprednre
- apprenddre
- apprender
- apprendrre
- apprenndre
- apprenrde
- apprnedre
- apprrendre
- aprendre
- aprpendre
- paprendre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apprendre - 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.
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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).