approuvait
\a.pʁu.vɛ\
The verdict
“approuvait” is uncommon French (frequency #60,544 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,544
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approuver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approuvait · approuvait · French
approuvait · rank #60,544 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,544
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apologétique
Nearest frequency peer: apologétique (-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 « approuvait »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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39,460 corpus weight
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39,459 corpus weight
- apologétique
apologétique
39,458 corpus weight
- approuvait
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39,457 corpus weight
- arda
arda
39,456 corpus weight
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areola
39,455 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « approuvait » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approuvait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁu.vɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #60,544 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « approuvait » en français
Rare enough to double-check
approuvait is uncommon French at frequency #60,544 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pʁu.vɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approuver.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for approuvait, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is approuvait, spelled A-P-P-R-O-U-V-A-I-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe approuver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how approuvait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’comprends, approuvait la Gadoue, ce qu’il te faudrait, ce serait la bonne combine pour te rebecqueter d’un coup…
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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