apocope
/əˈpɒ.kə.pi/
"apocope" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“apocope” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
Corpus desk
Index EN-apocope · apocope · English
apocope · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | apocope |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈpɒ.kə.pi/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “apocope” in English
Rare enough to double-check
apocope is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈpɒ.kə.pi/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
apocope doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Late Latin apocopē, derived from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ), ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”). The correct English form is apocope, spelled A-P-O-C-O-P-E.
Definition
- 1The loss or omission of the last vowel in a word, together with any consonants that follow it.
- 2The loss or omission of a sound or syllable from the end of a word.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Late Latin apocopē, derived from Ancient Greek ἀποκοπή (apokopḗ), ἀποκόπτω (apokóptō, “cut off”).
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.