apprivoise

\a.pʁi.vwaz\

/\a.pʁi.vwaz\/ verb

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The verdict

“apprivoise” is uncommon French (frequency #70,387 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#70,387
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apprivoiser.

Corpus desk

Index FR-apprivoise · apprivoise · French

apprivoise · rank #70,387 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #70,387
  • LEN-MEGA 10 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH appauvrissent

Nearest frequency peer: appauvrissent (-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 « apprivoise »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « apprivoise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for apprivoise
PropertyValue
Headwordapprivoise
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pʁi.vwaz\
Letters10
Frequency rank#70,387
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « apprivoise » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.apprivoisetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « appauvrissent » (#70,386), « Apremont » (#70,388), « Antti » (#70,385). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « apprivoise » est au #70,387. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

apprivoise is uncommon French at frequency #70,387 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pʁi.vwaz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 5 senses are on record.

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

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe apprivoiser.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how apprivoise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La mécanique d’Akropolis, possible As d’or au festival de Cannes la semaine prochaine, est plutôt simple, mais elle s’apprivoise.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "apprivoise"?
"apprivoise" is spelled A-P-P-R-I-V-O-I-S-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pʁi.vwaz\.
What does "apprivoise" mean?
As a verb, "apprivoise" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe apprivoiser.
How do you pronounce "apprivoise"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "apprivoise" is \a.pʁi.vwaz\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "apprivoise" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "apprivoise", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list