approche
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,385
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
approche is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action de s’approcher. Pronounced \a.pʁɔʃ\. It ranks #1,385 in French word frequency. Often confused with approuvé and approcher.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approche |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #1,385 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for approche is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pʁɔʃ\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,385 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for approche, with forms such as "apporche", "apprcohe", and "approcche". 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 also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "approuvé", "approcher", "approches", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 approche, spelled A-P-P-R-O-C-H-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action de s’approcher.
- 2L’abord, l’accès d’une place, d’un camp, etc.
- 3Action d’approcher une chose d’une autre.
- 4Distance, du blanc qui se trouve sur chaque côté d’une lettre ou de l’œil d’un caractère, créant l’interlettrage, l’espace entre les œils de caractères, lorsqu’ils sont mis les uns à côté des autres.
- 5Interlettrage.
- 6Réunion fautive de deux mots qui devraient être séparés ; séparation de deux syllabes, de deux lettres qui devraient se toucher.
- 7Méthode ou démarche méthodologique pour parvenir à un but.
- 8Ardoise taillée en biais pour être utilisée le long d'un arêtier ou d'une noue.
- 9Voisinage, abords immédiats
- 10Travaux que l’on conduit jusqu’au corps de la place qu’on assiège.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apporche,apprcohe,approcche,approceh,approchhe,approhce,apprroche,aproche,aprpoche,paproche
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for approche
Misspelling Variants of "approche"
Frequency rank: #1,385 in French
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