appt vs at, What's the Difference?

Which to use

“appt” is a verb and “at” is a preposition - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#48,065
“appt” frequency rank: #21
“at” frequency rank: 48086
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature	appt	at
Definition	Abbreviation of appoint.	In, near, or in the general vicinity of (a particular place).

Letter map: appt vs at

Shared letters muted; letters that set appt and at apart highlighted. Shared run: 2.

4 ch

appt

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Role in the sentence - appt and at

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: appt is averb and atapreposition. On the page they differ by 2 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 48086, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

appt is recorded at frequency rank #48,065, classified as averb. at is at rank #21, tagged as aprep, pronounced /æt/.

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 48086, this pair ranks #196,416 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of appt vs at

Shared letters: at. Private to "appt": p. Private to "at": -.

"appt" · 4 letters · shape VCCC · "at" · 2 letters · shape VC

Known mistypes of this pair

appt ← apptt · aptp · papt

Frequently Asked Questions

Do "appt" and "at" mean the same thing in a sentence?

No - they are not even the same part of speech. "appt" is a verb and "at" a preposition, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.

In ordinary English text, does "appt" or "at" show up more?

"at" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #21 in our English list, against #48,065 for "appt". That is a wide gap, so in ordinary text the rarer spelling is the one worth double-checking.

Useful next steps

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Full dictionary entry for "appt" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
Full dictionary entry for "at" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
This pair ranks #196,416 of 530,003 scored English confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
"appt" and "at" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "APL vs appt". 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 #196,416 of 530,003 scored English pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.