rapprochons
\ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃɔ̃\
The verdict
“rapprochons” is uncommon French (frequency #68,600 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,600
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rapprocher.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rapprochons · rapprochons · French
rapprochons · rank #68,600 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,600
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH ratant
Nearest frequency peer: ratant (+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 « rapprochons »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- rampent
rampent
31,404 corpus weight
- Randal
Randal
31,403 corpus weight
- rapprochons
rapprochons
31,401 corpus weight
- ratant
ratant
31,400 corpus weight
- reblochon
reblochon
31,399 corpus weight
- rebuté
rebuté
31,398 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « rapprochons » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | rapprochons |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #68,600 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « rapprochons » en français
Rare enough to double-check
rapprochons is uncommon French at frequency #68,600 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \ʁa.pʁɔ.ʃɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for rapprochons, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 rapprochons, spelled R-A-P-P-R-O-C-H-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Première personne du pluriel du présent de l’indicatif de rapprocher.
- 2Première personne du pluriel de l’impératif de rapprocher.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).