âpre
\ɑpʁ\
The verdict
“âpre” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #29,604. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #29,604
- frequency rank, French
- 14
- “” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui, par sa rudesse ou son âcreté, produit une sensation désagréable aux organes du toucher, de l’ouïe ou du goût.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apre · âpre · French
âpre · rank #29,604 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,604
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-MID 14
- PHOTO-FINISH zoologique
Nearest frequency peer: zoologique (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “âpre”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- zaïre
zaïre
70,400 corpus weight
- zodiac
zodiac
70,399 corpus weight
- zoologique
zoologique
70,398 corpus weight
- âpre
âpre
70,397 corpus weight
- écarlate
écarlate
70,396 corpus weight
- échangées
échangées
70,395 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “âpre” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | âpre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ɑpʁ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #29,604 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “âpre” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around âpre (IPA \ɑpʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #29,604 among 14 “” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for âpre, with forms such as "apre", "pâre", and "âper". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Art", "arc", "axe", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is âpre, spelled Â-P-R-E.
Definition
- 1Qui, par sa rudesse ou son âcreté, produit une sensation désagréable aux organes du toucher, de l’ouïe ou du goût.
- 2Qui a des aspérités, des inégalités rudes et incommodes.
- 3Qui est sévère, dur, violent.
- 4Qui se porte avec trop d’ardeur ou d’avidité, à quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how âpre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un vent froid et rude, ce vent qui avait glacé sa jeunesse, traversait la fosse grillée et cadenassée des vautours; une bise plus âpre et plus douloureuse encore soufflait dans la cage des colombes.
Et les bêtes poussaient leurs hurlements de haine, Et l’étalon, soufflant du feu par les naseaux, Broyait les vieux palmiers comme autant de roseaux, Et le grand Cavalier gardien de la Géhenne Mêlait sa clameur âpre aux cris des animaux.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apre
- pâre
- âper
- âppre
- âprre
- ârpe
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of âpre - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "âpre", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "âpre" maps to 20 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "Art". View pair
- 6 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #29,604 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "Â" letter cohort. –Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.