apprentie
\a.pʁɑ̃.ti\
The verdict
“apprentie” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,648
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celle qui apprend un métier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apprentie · apprentie · French
apprentie · rank #38,648 · 11 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,648
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Annemasse
Nearest frequency peer: Annemasse (-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 « apprentie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Anatolie
Anatolie
61,356 corpus weight
- angot
angot
61,355 corpus weight
- Annemasse
Annemasse
61,354 corpus weight
- apprentie
apprentie
61,353 corpus weight
- arcanes
arcanes
61,352 corpus weight
- archet
archet
61,351 corpus weight
What this shows « apprentie » 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 | apprentie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pʁɑ̃.ti\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « apprentie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around apprentie (IPA \a.pʁɑ̃.ti\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,648 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for apprentie, with forms such as "apperntie", "apprenite", and "apprenntie". 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, "apprentis", "apprécie", "apprenti", and more, 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is apprentie, spelled A-P-P-R-E-N-T-I-E.
Definition
- 1Celle qui apprend un métier.
- 2Novice, celle qui est malhabile dans les choses dont elle se mêle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how apprentie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ignore si son avis est le fruit d’un constat lucide ou l’envie de se débarrasser d’une apprentie désobéissante.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apperntie
- apprenite
- apprenntie
- apprentei
- apprenttie
- appretnie
- apprnetie
- apprrentie
- aprentie
- aprpentie
- paprentie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apprentie - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).