Apollos
"apollos" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Apollos” is uncommon English (frequency #81,113 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,113
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A figure of the early Christian church, mentioned in the Book of Acts and the First Epistle to the Corinthians.
Corpus desk
Index EN-apollos · Apollos · English
Apollos · rank #81,113 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,113
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH arachidonic
Nearest frequency peer: arachidonic (+4 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.
Long-tail ranks near “Apollos”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Anstruther
Anstruther
18,893 corpus weight
- Apollos
Apollos
18,888 corpus weight
- arachidonic
arachidonic
18,884 corpus weight
- arbitrarine…
arbitrariness
18,883 corpus weight
- Arezzo
Arezzo
18,882 corpus weight
- argosy
argosy
18,881 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Apollos” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apollos |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #81,113 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Apollos” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Apollos is uncommon English at frequency #81,113 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A figure of the early Christian church, mentioned in the Book of Acts and the First Epistle to the Corinthians.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Apollos in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Etymologically, the entry records: Inherited from Middle English, derived from Latin; from Ancient Greek Ἀπολλῶς (Apollôs), probably an abbreviated form of Ἀπολλώνιος (Apollṓnios). The correct English form is Apollos, spelled A-P-O-L-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1A figure of the early Christian church, mentioned in the Book of Acts and the First Epistle to the Corinthians.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English, derived from Latin; from Ancient Greek Ἀπολλῶς (Apollôs), probably an abbreviated form of Ἀπολλώνιος (Apollṓnios).
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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