approach
\əˈpɹəʊt͡ʃ\
The verdict
“approach” is uncommon French (frequency #57,083 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,083
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aborder, s’avancer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approach · approach · French
approach · rank #57,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,083
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appose
Nearest frequency peer: appose (-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 « approach »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apercevra
apercevra
42,921 corpus weight
- appliquaient
appliquaient
42,920 corpus weight
- appose
appose
42,919 corpus weight
- approach
approach
42,918 corpus weight
- approchera
approchera
42,917 corpus weight
- ardant
ardant
42,916 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « approach » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approach |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \əˈpɹəʊt͡ʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « approach » en français
Rare enough to double-check
approach is uncommon French at frequency #57,083 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \əˈpɹəʊt͡ʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for approach, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is approach, spelled A-P-P-R-O-A-C-H.
Definition
- 1Aborder, s’avancer.
- 2S’aboucher avec.
- 3S’approcher.
- 4Aborder (quelqu’un), s’avancer (vers quelqu’un, quelque chose).
- 5S’aboucher avec.
- 6S’approcher.
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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