appuyait

\a.pɥi.jɛ\

/\a.pɥi.jɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“appuyait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #32,277. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#32,277
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appuyer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-appuyait · appuyait · French

appuyait · rank #32,277 · 9 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #32,277
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH apprécieront

Nearest frequency peer: apprécieront (-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 « appuyait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « appuyait » 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).

appuyait vs appuyant
88% similar
appuyait vs appuya
75% similar
appuyait vs apparaît
63% similar

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

Key facts for appuyait
PropertyValue
Headwordappuyait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pɥi.jɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#32,277
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appuyait »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).appuyaitse 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 « apprécieront » (#32,276), « arachide » (#32,278), « apart » (#32,275). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appuyait » est au #32,277. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around appuyait (IPA \a.pɥi.jɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #32,277 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appuyer.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for appuyait, with forms such as "appuayit", "appuyaitt", and "appuyati". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "appuyant", "appuya", "apparaît", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is appuyait, spelled A-P-P-U-Y-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appuyer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. La Vierge aux paupières endolories écartait la main gauche en un geste rapace, tandis que l’autre main se crispait, avec des doigts surprotecteurs, sur un enfant agenouillé (à la forte calvitie frontale) qui priait, béni à distance par un autre chérubin, lequel s’appuyait à un androgyne au regard louche et à la bouche pincée, tendant, sans aucun souci des…

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • appuayit
  • appuyaitt
  • appuyati
  • appuyiat
  • appuyyait
  • appyuait
  • apupyait
  • apuyait
  • papuyait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appuyait - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

appuayit2appuyaitt1appuyati2appuyiat2appuyyait1appyuait2apupyait2apuyait1
Edit distance from "appuyait"

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 "appuyait"?
"appuyait" is spelled A-P-P-U-Y-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pɥi.jɛ\.
What does "appuyait" mean?
As a verb, "appuyait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appuyer.
What words are commonly confused with "appuyait"?
"appuyait" is commonly confused with "appuyant", "appuya", "apparaît". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appuyait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appuyait" is \a.pɥi.jɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appuyait" come from?
"appuyait" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "appuyait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list