apprêté
\a.pʁe.te\
The verdict
“apprêté” is uncommon French (frequency #90,406 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,406
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est trop travaillé, peu naturel, affecté.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apprete · apprêté · French
apprêté · rank #90,406 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,406
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appréhendait
Nearest frequency peer: appréhendait (-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 « apprêté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apporterez
apporterez
9,598 corpus weight
- approuvaient
approuvaient
9,597 corpus weight
- appréhendait
appréhendait
9,596 corpus weight
- apprêté
apprêté
9,595 corpus weight
- apurement
apurement
9,594 corpus weight
- archivée
archivée
9,593 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apprêté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apprêté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.pʁe.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,406 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « apprêté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
apprêté is uncommon French at frequency #90,406 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.pʁe.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui est trop travaillé, peu naturel, affecté.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for apprêté, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is apprêté, spelled A-P-P-R-Ê-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qui est trop travaillé, peu naturel, affecté.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apprêté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Style apprêté.
Un air, un ton, un style, un langage apprêté.
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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