apt
The verdict
“apt” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #29,641) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #29,641
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Enclin, disposé, dif=susceptible de, avoir tendance à.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apt · apt · French
apt · rank #29,641 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #29,641
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appréhende
Nearest frequency peer: appréhende (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « apt »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- appellerai
appellerai
70,363 corpus weight
- apposer
apposer
70,362 corpus weight
- appréhende
appréhende
70,361 corpus weight
- apt
apt
70,360 corpus weight
- aspirine
aspirine
70,358 corpus weight
- assiduité
assiduité
70,357 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « apt » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | apt |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #29,641 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « apt »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for apt is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anadjective. Frequency #29,641 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 3 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for apt, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "at", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is apt, spelled A-P-T.
Definition
- 1Enclin, disposé, dif=susceptible de, avoir tendance à.
- 2Doué, intelligent, dif=apte à.
- 3Pertinent, approprié.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how apt appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
The child is apt to cause problems when he becomes bored.
I found him to be a very apt student.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).