apologies
/əˈpɑləd͡ʒiːz/noun, interjection
apologies is spelled A-P-O-L-O-G-I-E-S. The wrong spelling people search most is appologies: about 330 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 15 of all searches for the word. Apologies is a noun meaning “A list of people unable to attend a meeting, typically presented as the first item on the agenda”.
How many letters and syllables are in apologies?
| Letters | 9: A-P-O-L-O-G-I-E-S |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 4 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | 7.1 times per million words; the 8,918th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, appologies, about 330 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
| Same letters |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026); rhymes and same-letter words are computed by PlainSpell from its own word list.
How do you spell apologies?
Apologies is spelled A-P-O-L-O-G-I-E-S. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 15 of the searches for apologies in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is apologies?
Apologies appears 7.1 times per million words in written English, the 8,918th 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).
How do you pronounce apologies?
- UK /əˈpɒləd͡ʒiːz/
- US /əˈpɑləd͡ʒiːz/
Apologies has 4 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What rhymes with apologies?
No other word on PlainSpell ends in the same sounds as apologies (/ɑlədʒiz/).
Spelled with the same letters in another order: apologise.
Computed by PlainSpell from the pronunciations in the English Wiktionary (dump of September 2, 2026): a rhyme shares every sound from the last stressed vowel to the end; ordered by written frequency (wordfreq 3.1).
What does apologies mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
A list of people unable to attend a meeting, typically presented as the first item on the agenda.
- 2
plural of apology
- 3
plural of apologie
interjection
- 1
Ellipsis of my apologies.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).