approcher
Letters
9 characters
Frequency Rank
#6,165
in French word usage
Misspellings
12
tracked variants
Confusables
9
similar word pairs
approcher is aFrenchverb. It means: Mettre proche, mettre près. Pronounced \a.pʁɔ.ʃe\. It ranks #6,165 in French word frequency. Often confused with approches and approuver.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approcher |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔ.ʃe\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #6,165 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for approcher is 9 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pʁɔ.ʃe\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,165 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 12 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 12 documented wrong-spelling variants for approcher, with forms such as "apporcher", "apprcoher", and "approccher". 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, "approches", "approuver", "approchez", 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 approcher, spelled A-P-P-R-O-C-H-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Mettre proche, mettre près.
- 2Faire voir comme plus proche.
- 3Admettre dans sa familiarité, dans sa proximité.
- 4Se placer, se trouver auprès de quelqu’un.
- 5Avoir un accès libre et facile auprès de quelqu’un.
- 6Prendre langue, en parlant de quelqu'un.
- 7Déterminer approximativement.
- 8Devenir proche.
- 9Avancer (vers), arriver à proximité (de).
- 10Approcher du but.
- 11Avoir quelque convenance, quelque rapport, quelque parité, quelque ressemblance.
- 12Devenir proche.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apporcher,apprcoher,approccher,approcehr,approcherr,approchher,approchre,approhcer,apprrocher,aprocher,aprpocher,paprocher
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for approcher
Misspelling Variants of "approcher"
Frequency rank: #6,165 in French
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