approchais
\a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“approchais” is uncommon French (frequency #80,871 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,871
- 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 imparfait du verbe approcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approchais · approchais · French
approchais · rank #80,871 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,871
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appelleraient
Nearest frequency peer: appelleraient (-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 « approchais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apical
apical
19,133 corpus weight
- apparatchik
apparatchik
19,132 corpus weight
- appelleraie…
appelleraient
19,131 corpus weight
- approchais
approchais
19,130 corpus weight
- arabisation
arabisation
19,129 corpus weight
- Ariégeois
Ariégeois
19,128 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « approchais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approchais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #80,871 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « approchais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
approchais is uncommon French at frequency #80,871 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for approchais, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is approchais, spelled A-P-P-R-O-C-H-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approcher.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how approchais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus j’approchais de Paris, plus j’appuyais sur l’accélérateur.
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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