apel
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The verdict
“apel” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #48,710) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #48,710
- frequency rank, German
- 6,976
- “A” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apfel als Frucht des Apfelbaums
Corpus desk
Index DE-apel · apel · German
apel · rank #48,710 · 2 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,710
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 2 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,976
- PHOTO-FINISH anzweifeln
Nearest frequency peer: anzweifeln (-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.
Häufigkeitsnachbarn des Verwechslers „apel“
Peers mit ähnlichem Corpus-Gewicht, getrennt von den Verwechslungspaaren unten
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51,294 corpus weight
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anzugucken
51,293 corpus weight
- anzweifeln
anzweifeln
51,292 corpus weight
- apel
apel
51,291 corpus weight
- Aquarien
Aquarien
51,290 corpus weight
- Arbeiters
Arbeiters
51,288 corpus weight
What this shows Balken platzieren „apel“ gegen die nächsten gerankten deutschen Lemmata, kein Reprint der Verwechslungsdesk.
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 | apel |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | […] |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #48,710 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus-Rang neben Verwechslern von „apel“
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for apel is neighbouring look-alikes ("are", "Aue", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced […]. Frequency #48,710 among 6,976 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Apfel als Frucht des Apfelbaums".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for apel, including "aepl" and "pael". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "are", "Aue", "ave", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct German form is apel, spelled A-P-E-L.
Definition
- 1Apfel als Frucht des Apfelbaums
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aepl
- pael
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of apel - 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 German corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar German words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked German headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).