April
The verdict
“April” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,066. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,066
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-april · April · French
April · rank #16,066 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,066
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH approchent
Nearest frequency peer: approchent (-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 « April »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- apparus
apparus
83,938 corpus weight
- apportez
apportez
83,937 corpus weight
- approchent
approchent
83,936 corpus weight
- April
April
83,935 corpus weight
- Armstrong
Armstrong
83,934 corpus weight
- arrogant
arrogant
83,933 corpus weight
What this shows « April » 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 | April |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #16,066 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « April »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around April, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #16,066 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for April, with forms such as "apirl", "appril", and "aprill". 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, "aria", "aris", "Arif", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is April, spelled A-P-R-I-L.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how April appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
« On va faire un peu de réflexion, de la discussion de groupe, ainsi qu’une série d’activités dans la nature », détaille April Rinne, une des coachs de l’association.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apirl
- appril
- aprill
- aprli
- aprril
- arpil
- paril
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of April - 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.
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 "April", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).