approprier
\a.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\
The verdict
“approprier” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,318. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,318
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Adapter, rendre propre à une destination.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approprier · approprier · French
approprier · rank #13,318 · 13 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,318
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apportée
Nearest frequency peer: apportée (-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 « approprier »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- apparitions
apparitions
86,686 corpus weight
- apportée
apportée
86,684 corpus weight
- approprier
approprier
86,683 corpus weight
- approuver
approuver
86,682 corpus weight
- appréciée
appréciée
86,681 corpus weight
- apéro
apéro
86,680 corpus weight
What this shows « approprier » 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 | approprier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,318 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « approprier »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around approprier (IPA \a.pʁɔ.pʁi.je\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,318 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for approprier, with forms such as "apporprier", "appropirer", and "appropprier". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "appropriés", "approprié", "appropriée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is approprier, spelled A-P-P-R-O-P-R-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Adapter, rendre propre à une destination.
- 2Demeurer ensemble, destinés à être ensemble, ajointé
- 3Faire de quelque chose sa propriété, même de façon illégitime.
- 4Se rendre propre une pensée, par la manière de l’exprimer, de la placer ou de la faire valoir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how approprier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
C'est à l'idéologie, à cette ténébreuse métaphysique qui, en recherchant avec subtilité les causes premières , veut sur ses bases fonder la législation des peuples, au lieu d’approprier les lois à la connaissance du cœur humain et aux leçons de l'histoire, qu'il faut attribuer tous les malheurs qu'a éprouvés notre belle France.
Personne ne peut leur faire concurrence, car ils donnent l’éducation, non à la masse et d’une façon générale comme nos professeurs de lycées, mais à chacun individuellement, appropriant l’éducation à l’élève.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apporprier
- appropirer
- appropprier
- appropreir
- approprierr
- approprire
- approprrier
- approrpier
- apprporier
- apprroprier
- aproprier
- aprpoprier
- paproprier
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of approprier - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).