approuvez
\a.pʁu.ve\
The verdict
“approuvez” is uncommon French (frequency #54,400 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,400
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe approuver.
Corpus desk
Index FR-approuvez · approuvez · French
approuvez · rank #54,400 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,400
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apocryphes
Nearest frequency peer: apocryphes (-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 « approuvez »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- antigènes
antigènes
45,604 corpus weight
- aphasie
aphasie
45,603 corpus weight
- apocryphes
apocryphes
45,602 corpus weight
- approuvez
approuvez
45,601 corpus weight
- archaïsme
archaïsme
45,599 corpus weight
- Archiv
Archiv
45,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « approuvez » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | approuvez |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pʁu.ve\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #54,400 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « approuvez » en français
Rare enough to double-check
approuvez is uncommon French at frequency #54,400 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pʁu.ve\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for approuvez in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is approuvez, spelled A-P-P-R-O-U-V-E-Z.
Definition
- 1Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe approuver.
- 2Deuxième personne du pluriel de l’impératif 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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