s’appuyer
\s‿a.pɥi.je\
The verdict
“s’appuyer” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Forme pronominale de appuyer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-s-appuyer · s’appuyer · French
s’appuyer · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "S" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | s’appuyer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \s‿a.pɥi.je\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
s’appuyer is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \s‿a.pɥi.je\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Forme pronominale de appuyer.".
s’appuyer has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is s’appuyer, spelled S-’-A-P-P-U-Y-E-R.
Definition
- 1Forme pronominale de appuyer.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how s’appuyer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On voit dès lors qu'il n'est point indifférent de représenter une coquille d'une manière ou d'une autre, et qu'il importe au zoologiste ou au paléontologue de donner aux géologues des points de comparaison sur lesquels ceux-ci puissent s'appuyer pour reconnaître l'état des couches à l'instant où les êtres qui y sont enfermés ont été recouvert de nouveaux…
Pourtant ils se mettaient à tirer en écartant le camarade mort qui les empêchait de s’appuyer au parapet, comme trois heures plus tôt ils en avaient écarté un autre pour casser la croûte.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.