apply
[əˈplaɪ]
The verdict
“apply” is uncommon German (frequency #92,588 among 113,935 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,588
- frequency rank, German
- 113,935
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - etwas für einen bestimmten Zweck benutzen: anwenden
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apply |
| Language | German |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | [əˈplaɪ] |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #92,588 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “apply” sits in German frequency
Rare enough to double-check
apply is uncommon German at frequency #92,588 among 113,935 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed [əˈplaɪ]. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for apply, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct German form is apply, spelled A-P-P-L-Y.
Definition
- 1etwas für einen bestimmten Zweck benutzen: anwenden
- 2etwas für einen bestimmten Zweck benutzen: anwenden
- 3etwas für einen bestimmten Zweck benutzen: anwenden
- 4seinen Sinn, seine Aufmerksamkeit auf etwas richten, sich einer Sache widmen
- 5sich an eine Person oder Institution wenden mit einer förmlichen Anfrage, einem Antrag oder einer Bewerbung, meist schriftlich: sich bewerben
- 6Anwendung finden, gültig oder passend sein: gelten
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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Using “apply”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct German spelling is A-P-P-L-Y - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.