approuves
\a.pʁuv\
The verdict
“approuves” is uncommon French (frequency #78,130 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #78,130
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe approuver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approuves · approuves · French
approuves · rank #78,130 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #78,130
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appro
Nearest frequency peer: appro (-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 « approuves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- anticonstit…
anticonstitutionnelle
21,875 corpus weight
- appro
appro
21,872 corpus weight
- approuves
approuves
21,871 corpus weight
- arable
arable
21,870 corpus weight
- arboraient
arboraient
21,869 corpus weight
- arcatures
arcatures
21,868 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « approuves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approuves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁuv\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #78,130 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « approuves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
approuves is uncommon French at frequency #78,130 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pʁuv\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
approuves doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is approuves, spelled A-P-P-R-O-U-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe approuver.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent 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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