appuya
\a.pɥi.ja\
The verdict
“appuya” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,487. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,487
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appuya · appuya · French
appuya · rank #49,487 · 6 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,487
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH approuvant
Nearest frequency peer: approuvant (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « appuya »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- appauvrit
appauvrit
50,517 corpus weight
- approuvant
approuvant
50,515 corpus weight
- appuya
appuya
50,514 corpus weight
- arceau
arceau
50,513 corpus weight
- Arcueil
Arcueil
50,512 corpus weight
- Armitage
Armitage
50,511 corpus weight
What this shows « appuya » 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 | appuya |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pɥi.ja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #49,487 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appuya »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around appuya (IPA \a.pɥi.ja\), averb. Corpus frequency is #49,487 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appuyer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for appuya, with forms such as "appuay", "appuyya", and "appyua". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "appuyé", "appuyer", "appuyée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is appuya, spelled A-P-P-U-Y-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appuya appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il appuya sa tête livide sur l’épaule de la jeune femme, et ses doigts crispés se cramponnèrent, en la déchirant, à la fine batiste brodée qui couvrait d’un flot de gaze le corps de Marguerite.
L’étudiant partit en reculottant des fesses marbrées, Getulio debout, encore instable, s’appuya sur l’épaule d’Arthur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appuay
- appuyya
- appyua
- apupya
- apuya
- papuya
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appuya - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).