Apalachicola
/ˌæpəlæt͡ʃɪˈkoʊlə/
"apalachicola" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Apalachicola” is an uncommon English word, ranked #87,022 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #87,022
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A river in Florida, United States, which flows from Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apalachicola |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌæpəlæt͡ʃɪˈkoʊlə/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #87,022 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Apalachicola” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Apalachicola is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌæpəlæt͡ʃɪˈkoʊlə/. Corpus data places it at rank #87,022 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Apalachicola has no tracked misspelling variants, 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, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: Named after the Apalachicola people The correct English form is Apalachicola, spelled A-P-A-L-A-C-H-I-C-O-L-A.
Definition
- 1A river in Florida, United States, which flows from Georgia to the Gulf of Mexico.
- 2A coastal city, the county seat of Franklin County, Florida.
Etymology
Named after the Apalachicola people
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Apalachicola”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-P-A-L-A-C-H-I-C-O-L-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌæpəlæt͡ʃɪˈkoʊlə/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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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.