après
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#76
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
après is aFrenchprep. It means: Marque la postériorité dans le temps. Pronounced \a.pʁɛ\. It ranks #76 in French word frequency. Often confused with are and ars.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | après |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Prep |
| IPA | \a.pʁɛ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #76 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for après is 5 letters long, classified as aprep, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.pʁɛ\. Corpus data places it at rank #76 in overall French word frequency, putting it firmly in the everyday core of the language.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for après, with forms such as "apprès", "apres", and "aprrès". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "are", "ars", "APS", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is après, spelled A-P-R-È-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Marque la postériorité dans le temps.
- 2Indique l’ordre, le rang immédiatement derrière.
- 3Indique un lieu placé derrière, plus loin.
- 4Indique la position où a lieu l’action.
- 5Indique sur quoi portent certaines actions ou intentions.
- 6en train de.
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Also misspelled as: apprès,apres,aprrès,aprsè,aprèss,apèrs,arpès,parès
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "après"
Frequency rank: #76 in French
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