apprisvsAprilWhich spelling fits?

Quick tell: appris is a verb, April is a name, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“appris” is a verb and “April” is a name - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#1,315
“appris” frequency rank
#16,066
“April” frequency rank
17381
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature appris April
Definition Participe passé masculin (singulier ou pluriel) du verbe apprendre. Prénom féminin.

Letter map: appris vs April

Shared letters muted; letters that set appris and April apart highlighted. Shared run: 4.

6 ch
appris
5 ch
April

Role in the sentence - appris and April

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: appris is averb and Aprilaname. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 17381, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

appris is recorded at frequency rank #1,315, classified as averb, pronounced \a.pʁi\. April is at rank #16,066, tagged as aname.

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 17381, this pair ranks #383,459 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.

Orthographic DNA of appris vs April

Shared letters: aipr. Private to "appris": s. Private to "April": l.

"appris" · 6 letters · shape VCCCVC  ·  "April" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • apprisappirs · appriss · apprris · apprsi · aprpis · papris
  • Aprilapirl · appril · aprill · aprli · aprril · arpil · paril

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "appris" and "April" mean the same thing in a sentence?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "appris" is a verb and "April" a name, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Which is more common, "appris" or "April"?
"appris" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #1,315 in our French list, against #16,066 for "April". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

After this comparison

You've compared "appris" and "April". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "appris" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "April" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #383,459 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "appris" and "April" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "April vs auriol". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #383,459 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list