appuyant
\a.pɥi.jɑ̃\
The verdict
“appuyant” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,653. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,653
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent du verbe appuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appuyant · appuyant · French
appuyant · rank #7,653 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,653
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appelez
Nearest frequency peer: appelez (-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 « appuyant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- annoncée
annoncée
92,351 corpus weight
- appelez
appelez
92,349 corpus weight
- appuyant
appuyant
92,348 corpus weight
- attraction
attraction
92,346 corpus weight
- aurions
aurions
92,345 corpus weight
- automobiles
automobiles
92,344 corpus weight
What this shows « appuyant » 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 | appuyant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pɥi.jɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appuyant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around appuyant (IPA \a.pɥi.jɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,653 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent du verbe appuyer.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for appuyant, with forms such as "appuaynt", "appuyannt", and "appuyantt". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "appuya", "appelant", "appuient", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is appuyant, spelled A-P-P-U-Y-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent du verbe appuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appuyant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et sa voix alors prenait une intonation dolente et uniforme, enflant les mots, appuyant indéfiniment sur les syllabes.
Goffe, qui avait vu la scène de son établi, lui apporta un verre de bière pour le ravigourer ; et à la fin, très lentement, s’appuyant sur ses poignets, il se redressa, les jambes et les bras meurtris.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- appuaynt
- appuyannt
- appuyantt
- appuyatn
- appuynat
- appuyyant
- appyuant
- apupyant
- apuyant
- papuyant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appuyant - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).