approcher

/\a.pʁɔ.ʃe\/ verb

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.

Key facts for approcher
PropertyValue
Headwordapprocher
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pʁɔ.ʃe\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,165
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of approcher in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Mettre proche, mettre près.
  2. 2
    Faire voir comme plus proche.
  3. 3
    Admettre dans sa familiarité, dans sa proximité.
  4. 4
    Se placer, se trouver auprès de quelqu’un.
  5. 5
    Avoir un accès libre et facile auprès de quelqu’un.
  6. 6
    Prendre langue, en parlant de quelqu'un.
  7. 7
    Déterminer approximativement.
  8. 8
    Devenir proche.
  9. 9
    Avancer (vers), arriver à proximité (de).
  10. 10
    Approcher du but.
  11. 11
    Avoir quelque convenance, quelque rapport, quelque parité, quelque ressemblance.
  12. 12
    Devenir 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"

apporcher9apprcoher9approccher10approcehr9approcherr10approchher10approchre9approhcer9
Misspelling Variants of "approcher"

Frequency rank: #6,165 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "approcher"?
"approcher" is spelled A-P-P-R-O-C-H-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pʁɔ.ʃe\.
What does "approcher" mean?
As a verb, "approcher" means: Mettre proche, mettre près.
What words are commonly confused with "approcher"?
"approcher" is commonly confused with "approches", "approuver", "approchez". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "approcher"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "approcher" is \a.pʁɔ.ʃe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "approcher" come from?
"approcher" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.