attraper

/\a.tʁa.pe\/ verb

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.

Key facts for attraper
PropertyValue
Headwordattraper
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.tʁa.pe\
Letters8
Frequency rank#7,527
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of attraper in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Prendre à une trappe, à un piège ou à quelque chose de semblable.
  2. 2
    Prendre ; saisir.
  3. 3
    Prendre sur le fait ; surprendre.
  4. 4
    Surprendre artificieusement ou tromper avec malice.
  5. 5
    Faire éprouver un mécompte, une surprise désagréable.
  6. 6
    Atteindre en courant, en allant après, ou saisir au passage.
  7. 7
    Contracter une maladie, en être atteint.
  8. 8
    Recevoir un coup.
  9. 9
    Obtenir, se procurer quelque chose par ruse, par adresse, par quelque manœuvre.
  10. 10
    Prendre le meilleur, être favorisé par le sort dans une distribution, dans un partage.
  11. 11
    Saisir pour les exprimer, les rendre, les reproduire, en parlant des pensées ou des caractères, des ressemblances.
  12. 12
    Gronder ; gourmander ; agonir ; reprendre.
  13. 13
    Attacher, accrocher, en parlant de nourriture cuisant dans un ustensile de cuisine.
  14. 14
    Frapper, heurter.
  15. 15
    Se donner des atteintes en marchant.
  16. 16
    Tenir en main, garder en main.
  17. 17
    Entendre de loin.

This word in other languages

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"

atraper7atrtaper8attarper8attraepr8attraperr9attrapper9attrapre8attrpaer8
Misspelling Variants of "attraper"

Frequency rank: #7,527 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "attraper"?
"attraper" is spelled A-T-T-R-A-P-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.tʁa.pe\.
What does "attraper" mean?
As a verb, "attraper" means: Prendre à une trappe, à un piège ou à quelque chose de semblable.
What words are commonly confused with "attraper"?
"attraper" is commonly confused with "attrape", "attrapent". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "attraper"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "attraper" is \a.tʁa.pe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "attraper" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.