apprivoiser

/\a.pʁi.vwa.ze\/ verb

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\.

Key facts for apprivoiser
PropertyValue
Headwordapprivoiser
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pʁi.vwa.ze\
Letters11
Frequency rank#29,223
Misspellings tracked14
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of apprivoiser in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Rendre un animal moins sauvage.
  2. 2
    Faire d’un animal sauvage un animal privé.
  3. 3
    Rendre quelqu’un plus doux, plus traitable.
  4. 4
    Rendre familier.
  5. 5
    Devenir moins sauvage (animal).
  6. 6
    Devenir plus doux, plus sociable, s’accoutumer, s’habituer (personne).
  7. 7
    S’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

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for apprivoiser

Misspelling Variants of "apprivoiser"

appirvoiser11apprioviser11apprivioser11apprivoiesr11apprivoiserr12apprivoisre11apprivoisser12apprivosier11
Misspelling Variants of "apprivoiser"

Frequency rank: #29,223 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "apprivoiser"?
"apprivoiser" is spelled A-P-P-R-I-V-O-I-S-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pʁi.vwa.ze\.
What does "apprivoiser" mean?
As a verb, "apprivoiser" means: Rendre un animal moins sauvage.
What are common misspellings of "apprivoiser"?
Common misspellings include "appirvoiser", "apprioviser", "apprivioser", "apprivoiesr", "apprivoiserr". The correct spelling is "apprivoiser".
How do you pronounce "apprivoiser"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "apprivoiser" is \a.pʁi.vwa.ze\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "apprivoiser" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.