apprivoise
\a.pʁi.vwaz\
The verdict
“apprivoise” is an uncommon French word, ranked #70,387 in French word frequency and used as a verb.
- #70,387
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apprivoise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁi.vwaz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #70,387 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “apprivoise” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for apprivoise is 10 letters long, classified as a verb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pʁi.vwaz\. Corpus data places it at rank #70,387 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for apprivoise, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is apprivoise, spelled A-P-P-R-I-V-O-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
- 2Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
- 3Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
- 4Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
- 5Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe apprivoiser.
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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Using “apprivoise”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-P-P-R-I-V-O-I-S-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.pʁi.vwaz\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.