auprès
French, adverb/o.pʁɛ/
auprès is spelled A-U-P-R-È-S (6 letters) and appears 100 times per million words in written French, the 823rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Auprès is a French adverb meaning “nearby” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Tout proche, tout contre, à côté…”.
What does auprès mean in English?
adverb
- 1
archaicnearby
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adverb: 1. Tout proche, tout contre, à côté…
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
How do you pronounce auprès?
- /o.pʁɛ/
- \o.pʁɛ\
- [o.pʁɛ]
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is auprès in French?
auprès appears 100 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).