approfondissement

Name: approfondissement, French Word Data
Creator: Wiktionary
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\a.pʁɔ.fɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\

/\a.pʁɔ.fɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\/ noun

By PlainSpell · According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA) · analyzed September 3, 2026

The verdict

“approfondissement” has 23 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,832. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#28,832
frequency rank, French: 6,727
“A” headwords: 23
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’approfondir.

Corpus desk

Index FR-approfondissement · approfondissement · French

approfondissement · rank #28,832 · 23 variants · 0 confusables

FREQ-MID #28,832
LEN-MEGA 17 letters
VOW-6 6 vowels
CONFUS-0 No pairs
VAR-HIGH 23 variants
BOOK-DENSE 6,727
PHOTO-FINISH apprendront

Nearest frequency peer: apprendront (-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.

anéantie

71,172
appauvrisse…

71,171
apprendront

71,170
approfondis…

71,169
approuvées

71,168
arbuste

71,167

What this shows « approfondissement » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Key facts for approfondissement
Property	Value
Headword	approfondissement
Language	French
Part of speech	Noun
IPA	\a.pʁɔ.fɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\
Letters	17
Frequency rank	#28,832
Misspellings tracked	23
Confusable pairs	0
Source	Wiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « approfondissement »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).approfondissementse place ici:

#28,832

#1#100#1K#10K#100K

← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « apprendront » (#28,831), « approuvées » (#28,833), « appauvrissement » (#28,830). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « approfondissement » est au #28,832. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 23 spelling variants around approfondissement (IPA \a.pʁɔ.fɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #28,832 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Action d’approfondir.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 23 likely wrong-spelling variants for approfondissement, with forms such as "apporfondissement", "apprfoondissement", and "approffondissement". 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. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is approfondissement, spelled A-P-P-R-O-F-O-N-D-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T.

Definition

1
Action d’approfondir.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how approfondissement appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

L’approfondissement d’un fossé.

This word in other languages

ahondamiento(Español)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

apporfondissement
apprfoondissement
approffondissement
approfnodissement
approfodnissement
approfonddissement
approfondisement
approfondisesment
approfondisseemnt
approfondissemennt
approfondissementt
approfondissemetn
approfondissemment
approfondissemnet
approfondissmeent
approfondsisement
approfonidssement
approfonndissement
approofndissement
apprrofondissement
aprofondissement
aprpofondissement
paprofondissement

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of approfondissement - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

Edit distance from "approfondissement"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "approfondissement"?

"approfondissement" is spelled A-P-P-R-O-F-O-N-D-I-S-S-E-M-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pʁɔ.fɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\.

What does "approfondissement" mean?

As a noun, "approfondissement" means: Action d’approfondir.

What are common misspellings of "approfondissement"?

Common misspellings include "apporfondissement", "apprfoondissement", "approffondissement", "approfnodissement", "approfodnissement". The correct spelling is "approfondissement".

How do you pronounce "approfondissement"?

The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "approfondissement" is \a.pʁɔ.fɔ̃.dis.mɑ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.

What language does "approfondissement" come from?

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Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "approfondissement", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

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Similar misspelling depth

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