approches
\a.pʁɔʃ\
The verdict
“approches” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,601. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,601
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de approche.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approches · approches · French
approches · rank #9,601 · 12 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,601
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apocalypse
Nearest frequency peer: apocalypse (-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 « approches »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Antilles
Antilles
90,403 corpus weight
- aperçoit
aperçoit
90,402 corpus weight
- apocalypse
apocalypse
90,401 corpus weight
- approches
approches
90,400 corpus weight
- associées
associées
90,398 corpus weight
- assurément
assurément
90,397 corpus weight
What this shows « approches » 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 | approches |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔʃ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,601 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « approches »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around approches (IPA \a.pʁɔʃ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,601 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de approche.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for approches, with forms such as "apporches", "apprcohes", and "approcches". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "approchez", "approche", "approcha", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is approches, spelled A-P-P-R-O-C-H-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de approche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how approches appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sous-typer les entraînements, changer d’objectifs de compétitions, modifier en permanence l’environnement permet de varier les approches émotionnelles.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apporches
- apprcohes
- approcches
- approcehs
- approchess
- approchhes
- approchse
- approhces
- apprroches
- aproches
- aprpoches
- paproches
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of approches - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).