approuvent
\a.pʁuv\
The verdict
“approuvent” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #25,551. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #25,551
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe approuver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approuvent · approuvent · French
approuvent · rank #25,551 · 13 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #25,551
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antidépresseu…
Nearest frequency peer: antidépresseurs (-2 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 « approuvent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Andes
Andes
74,454 corpus weight
- antidépress…
antidépresseurs
74,452 corpus weight
- approuvent
approuvent
74,450 corpus weight
- arnaquer
arnaquer
74,448 corpus weight
- aspirent
aspirent
74,447 corpus weight
- asse
asse
74,446 corpus weight
What this shows « approuvent » 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 | approuvent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁuv\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #25,551 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « approuvent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around approuvent (IPA \a.pʁuv\), averb. Corpus frequency is #25,551 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for approuvent, with forms such as "apporuvent", "approuevnt", and "approuvennt". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "approuver", "approuvé", "approuvée", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is approuvent, spelled A-P-P-R-O-U-V-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe approuver.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe approuver.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how approuvent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De son côté, Jean-François Dumonteil, précise que lui-même et la majorité de son conseil municipal « récusent formellement les propos de M. Jaouen et, au contraire, approuvent l’initiative du président du conseil départemental (…) en relation avec la chambre d’agriculture vis la FDSEA (…) pour l’indemnisation des agriculteurs volontaires ».
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apporuvent
- approuevnt
- approuvennt
- approuventt
- approuvetn
- approuvnet
- approuvvent
- approvuent
- apprrouvent
- appruovent
- aprouvent
- aprpouvent
- paprouvent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of approuvent - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "approuvent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).