APK
"apk" is a 3-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“APK” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #31,064) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #31,064
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An APK file, or an Android app distributed via APK files.
Corpus desk
Index EN-apk · APK · English
APK · rank #31,064 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,064
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH antioxidant
Nearest frequency peer: antioxidant (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Frequency neighbours of confusable “APK”
Peers at similar corpus weight, separate from look-alike pairs below
- anomalous
anomalous
68,940 corpus weight
- Anson
Anson
68,939 corpus weight
- antioxidant
antioxidant
68,938 corpus weight
- APK
APK
68,937 corpus weight
- Armitage
Armitage
68,936 corpus weight
- assemblage
assemblage
68,934 corpus weight
What this shows Bars place “APK” against nearest ranked English headwords, not a reprint of the confusable-pair desk.
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 | APK |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #31,064 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Corpus rank beside confusables of “APK”
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for APK is neighbouring look-alikes ("as", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #31,064 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Gloss: "An APK file, or an Android app distributed via APK files.".
No misspelling variants are generated for APK in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "as", "at", "aw", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: Abbreviation of Android package. The correct English form is APK, spelled A-P-K.
Definition
- 1An APK file, or an Android app distributed via APK files.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how APK appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
"Our current APK (Android app) provides support to SL4A," Mosquera Paulo said.
Etymology
Abbreviation of Android package.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).