apprivoiser
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#29,223
in French word usage
Misspellings
14
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
apprivoiser is aFrenchverb. It means: Rendre un animal moins sauvage. Pronounced \a.pʁi.vwa.ze\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apprivoiser |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁi.vwa.ze\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #29,223 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for apprivoiser is 11 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pʁi.vwa.ze\. Corpus data places it at rank #29,223 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 14 documented wrong-spelling variants for apprivoiser, with forms such as "appirvoiser", "apprioviser", and "apprivioser". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is apprivoiser, spelled A-P-P-R-I-V-O-I-S-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Rendre un animal moins sauvage.
- 2Faire d’un animal sauvage un animal privé.
- 3Rendre quelqu’un plus doux, plus traitable.
- 4Rendre familier.
- 5Devenir moins sauvage (animal).
- 6Devenir plus doux, plus sociable, s’accoutumer, s’habituer (personne).
- 7S’accoutumer à la vue du danger, à l’exemple du vice.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: appirvoiser,apprioviser,apprivioser,apprivoiesr,apprivoiserr,apprivoisre,apprivoisser,apprivosier,apprivvoiser,apprrivoiser,apprvioiser,aprivoiser,aprpivoiser,paprivoiser
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Misspelling Variants of "apprivoiser"
Frequency rank: #29,223 in French
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