approchait
\a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ\
The verdict
“approchait” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,885. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,885
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approchait · approchait · French
approchait · rank #25,885 · 13 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,885
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apprentissages
Nearest frequency peer: apprentissages (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « approchait »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- animalier
animalier
74,120 corpus weight
- apprentissa…
apprentissages
74,117 corpus weight
- approchait
approchait
74,116 corpus weight
- Arnault
Arnault
74,115 corpus weight
- artist
artist
74,113 corpus weight
- assemble
assemble
74,112 corpus weight
What this shows « approchait » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approchait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #25,885 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « approchait »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around approchait (IPA \a.pʁɔ.ʃɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,885 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approcher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for approchait, with forms such as "apporchait", "apprcohait", and "approcahit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "approchent", "approchant", "approcha", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is approchait, spelled A-P-P-R-O-C-H-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how approchait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On ne sait pas si c’est pour le soutien ou pour le spectacle : dès que, sous le chaume, on a su que l’heure approchait, une à une les vésines sont arrivées, chacune offrant ses compétences pour faire passer un linge, parler de ses expériences ou éviter qu’on jette des coquilles d’œufs dans la cheminée : le poupard mourrait dans la nuit.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apporchait
- apprcohait
- approcahit
- approcchait
- approchaitt
- approchati
- approchhait
- approchiat
- approhcait
- apprrochait
- aprochait
- aprpochait
- paprochait
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of approchait - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).