approuvaient
\a.pʁu.vɛ\
The verdict
“approuvaient” is uncommon French (frequency #90,404 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,404
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approuver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approuvaient · approuvaient · French
approuvaient · rank #90,404 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,404
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apporterez
Nearest frequency peer: apporterez (-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 « approuvaient »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- apologies
apologies
9,600 corpus weight
- applause
applause
9,599 corpus weight
- apporterez
apporterez
9,598 corpus weight
- approuvaient
approuvaient
9,597 corpus weight
- appréhendait
appréhendait
9,596 corpus weight
- apprêté
apprêté
9,595 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « approuvaient » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approuvaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁu.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #90,404 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « approuvaient » en français
Rare enough to double-check
approuvaient is uncommon French at frequency #90,404 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pʁu.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approuver.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for approuvaient, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is approuvaient, spelled A-P-P-R-O-U-V-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approuver.
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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