rapprocha
\ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃa\
The verdict
“rapprocha” is uncommon French (frequency #56,209 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,209
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rapprocher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapprocha · rapprocha · French
rapprocha · rank #56,209 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,209
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rancho
Nearest frequency peer: rancho (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « rapprocha »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rajout
rajout
43,794 corpus weight
- rancho
rancho
43,793 corpus weight
- rapprocha
rapprocha
43,792 corpus weight
- rassemblera
rassemblera
43,791 corpus weight
- rebuts
rebuts
43,790 corpus weight
- recomposer
recomposer
43,789 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rapprocha » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapprocha |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃa\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #56,209 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rapprocha » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rapprocha is uncommon French at frequency #56,209 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rapprocher.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for rapprocha, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rapprocha, spelled R-A-P-P-R-O-C-H-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple de rapprocher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how rapprocha appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un genre de distinction analogue se fait dans les îles de la Grèce au déclin de leurs libertés, à la chute de l’Empire romain, lorsque l’égoïsme eut pris la place des inspirations généreuses; alors le point de vue se rapprocha des objets, l’imitation se concentra sur le portrait aux dimensions minimissimes.
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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