attraper
Letters
8 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,527
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
attraper is aFrenchverb. It means: Prendre à une trappe, à un piège ou à quelque chose de semblable. Pronounced \a.tʁa.pe\. It ranks #7,527 in French word frequency. Often confused with attrape and attrapent.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | attraper |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.tʁa.pe\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #7,527 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for attraper is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.tʁa.pe\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,527 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 17 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 10 documented wrong-spelling variants for attraper, with forms such as "atraper", "atrtaper", and "attarper". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "attrape", "attrapent", 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 attraper, spelled A-T-T-R-A-P-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Prendre à une trappe, à un piège ou à quelque chose de semblable.
- 2Prendre ; saisir.
- 3Prendre sur le fait ; surprendre.
- 4Surprendre artificieusement ou tromper avec malice.
- 5Faire éprouver un mécompte, une surprise désagréable.
- 6Atteindre en courant, en allant après, ou saisir au passage.
- 7Contracter une maladie, en être atteint.
- 8Recevoir un coup.
- 9Obtenir, se procurer quelque chose par ruse, par adresse, par quelque manœuvre.
- 10Prendre le meilleur, être favorisé par le sort dans une distribution, dans un partage.
- 11Saisir pour les exprimer, les rendre, les reproduire, en parlant des pensées ou des caractères, des ressemblances.
- 12Gronder ; gourmander ; agonir ; reprendre.
- 13Attacher, accrocher, en parlant de nourriture cuisant dans un ustensile de cuisine.
- 14Frapper, heurter.
- 15Se donner des atteintes en marchant.
- 16Tenir en main, garder en main.
- 17Entendre de loin.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: atraper,atrtaper,attarper,attraepr,attraperr,attrapper,attrapre,attrpaer,attrraper,tatraper
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for attraper
Misspelling Variants of "attraper"
Frequency rank: #7,527 in French
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