rapprochant
\ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃɑ̃\
The verdict
“rapprochant” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,334. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,334
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe présent de rapprocher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapprochant · rapprochant · French
rapprochant · rank #23,334 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,334
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rapportait
Nearest frequency peer: rapportait (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « rapprochant »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- rama
rama
76,670 corpus weight
- Rand
Rand
76,669 corpus weight
- rapportait
rapportait
76,668 corpus weight
- rapprochant
rapprochant
76,667 corpus weight
- RDA
RDA
76,666 corpus weight
- recherchez
recherchez
76,665 corpus weight
What this shows « rapprochant » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | rapprochant |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #23,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « rapprochant »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around rapprochant (IPA \ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃɑ̃\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,334 among 5,742 “R” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Participe présent de rapprocher.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for rapprochant, with forms such as "arpprochant", "rapporchant", and "rapprcohant". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "reprochant", "rapprochent", "rapprochait", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is rapprochant, spelled R-A-P-P-R-O-C-H-A-N-T.
Definition
- 1Participe présent de rapprocher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how rapprochant appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On procède au désinterlignage de la manière suivante : Le paquet à désinterligner est placé dans une galée (ordinaire, si on désinterligne sur la casse ; à pied, si on désinterligne sur le marbre), dans le même sens que la composition ; et chaque interligne, en commençant par le bas du paquet, est successivement soulevée, à l’aide d’une autre interligne o…
Écoutez Virgile hausser l’églogue à la hauteur du printemps ; Catulle mêler l’avril aux tentations plus fortes que les ambitions ; Longus adorer Chloé nue ; Dante épancher son inquiétude philosophique et lyrique sur le mystère de la femme ; Pétrarque soupirer ses aveux dans un exil que sa détresse enchante ; et, se rapprochant toujours plus de nous, Ronsa…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- arpprochant
- rapporchant
- rapprcohant
- rapprocahnt
- rapprocchant
- rapprochannt
- rapprochantt
- rapprochatn
- rapprochhant
- rapprochnat
- rapprohcant
- rapprrochant
- raprochant
- raprpochant
- rpaprochant
- rrapprochant
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of rapprochant - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).