approuvent

\a.pʁuv\

/\a.pʁuv\/ verb

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

corpus weight

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

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

approuvent vs approuver
80% similar
approuvent vs approuvé
70% similar
approuvent vs approuvée
70% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for approuvent
PropertyValue
Headwordapprouvent
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pʁuv\
Letters10
Frequency rank#25,551
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « approuvent »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).approuventse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « antidépresseurs » (#25,549), « arnaquer » (#25,553), « aspirent » (#25,554). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « approuvent » est au #25,551. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe approuver.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe approuver.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

apporuvent2approuevnt2approuvennt1approuventt1approuvetn2approuvnet2approuvvent1approvuent2
Edit distance from "approuvent"

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 "approuvent"?
"approuvent" is spelled A-P-P-R-O-U-V-E-N-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pʁuv\.
What does "approuvent" mean?
As a verb, "approuvent" means: Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe approuver.
What words are commonly confused with "approuvent"?
"approuvent" is commonly confused with "approuver", "approuvé", "approuvée". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "approuvent"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "approuvent" is \a.pʁuv\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "approuvent" come from?
"approuvent" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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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).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list