appuyais
\a.pɥi.jɛ\
The verdict
“appuyais” is uncommon French (frequency #98,745 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #98,745
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appuyais · appuyais · French
appuyais · rank #98,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #98,745
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH applicative
Nearest frequency peer: applicative (-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 « appuyais »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Apamée
Apamée
1,260 corpus weight
- apparaîtrai…
apparaîtraient
1,259 corpus weight
- appeau
appeau
1,258 corpus weight
- applicative
applicative
1,257 corpus weight
- appuyais
appuyais
1,256 corpus weight
- arraisonné
arraisonné
1,254 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « appuyais » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appuyais |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pɥi.jɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #98,745 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « appuyais » en français
Rare enough to double-check
appuyais is uncommon French at frequency #98,745 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.pɥi.jɛ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for appuyais in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is appuyais, spelled A-P-P-U-Y-A-I-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appuyer.
- 2Deuxième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appuyais appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Plus j’approchais de Paris, plus j’appuyais sur l’accélérateur.
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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