approchèrent
\a.pʁɔ.ʃɛʁ\
The verdict
“approchèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #82,676 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,676
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe approcher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approcherent · approchèrent · French
approchèrent · rank #82,676 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,676
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH archivistique
Nearest frequency peer: archivistique (+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 « approchèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- annotées
annotées
17,330 corpus weight
- Apollodore
Apollodore
17,327 corpus weight
- approchèrent
approchèrent
17,325 corpus weight
- archivistiq…
archivistique
17,324 corpus weight
- ardennaise
ardennaise
17,322 corpus weight
- armen
armen
17,321 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « approchèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approchèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔ.ʃɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #82,676 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « approchèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
approchèrent is uncommon French at frequency #82,676 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pʁɔ.ʃɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe approcher.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for approchèrent, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is approchèrent, spelled A-P-P-R-O-C-H-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel du passé simple du verbe approcher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how approchèrent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un jeune barman aux cheveux lisses avec une cravate-lacet leur jeta un coup d’œil quand ils s’approchèrent du bar, mais sans interrompre le moins du monde ses occupations pour les servir.
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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