Apelles
/əˈpɛliːz/noun
Apelles is a noun meaning “A master artist” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-P-E-L-L-E-S, and it appears about once in every 24 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does Apelles mean?
noun
- 1
A master artist.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce Apelles?
- UK /əˈpɛliːz/
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is Apelles?
Apelles appears about once in every 24 million words in written English, the 148,541st most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does Apelles come from?
From the Latin Apellēs, from the Ancient Greek Ἀπελλῆς (Apellês) (Apellēs, Apelles of Kos, a renowned painter in the time of Alexander the Great).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).