apprends
\a.pʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“apprends” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,424. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,424
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de apprendre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apprends · apprends · French
apprends · rank #5,424 · 11 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,424
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antenne
Nearest frequency peer: antenne (-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 « apprends »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- analyser
analyser
94,579 corpus weight
- antenne
antenne
94,578 corpus weight
- apprends
apprends
94,577 corpus weight
- artillerie
artillerie
94,576 corpus weight
- bal
bal
94,575 corpus weight
- blé
blé
94,574 corpus weight
What this shows « apprends » 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 | apprends |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,424 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « apprends »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around apprends (IPA \a.pʁɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #5,424 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for apprends, with forms such as "appernds", "appredns", and "apprendds". 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 11 confusable-pair relationships, "apprenez", "apprenti", "apprenne", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is apprends, spelled A-P-P-R-E-N-D-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de apprendre.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent de apprendre.
- 3Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif de apprendre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how apprends appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Avec eux, j’apprends à biner les pommes de terre, sarcler entre les rangées de carottes, dédrussir les plants de salades, cueillir et écosser les haricots ou les petits pois.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appernds
- appredns
- apprendds
- apprendss
- apprennds
- apprensd
- apprneds
- apprrends
- aprends
- aprpends
- paprends
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apprends - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).