Appalachians
/ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.ʃənz/
"appalachians" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Appalachians” is an uncommon English word, ranked #55,241 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #55,241
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A range of mountains in eastern North America, running northeast from Alabama in the United States to Newfoundland in Canada, variously including or excluding the Adirondack Mountains in northern N...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Appalachians |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.ʃənz/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #55,241 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Appalachians” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Appalachians is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.ʃənz/. Corpus data places it at rank #55,241 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Appalachians, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Etymologically, the entry records: See Appalachian. The correct English form is Appalachians, spelled A-P-P-A-L-A-C-H-I-A-N-S.
Definition
- 1A range of mountains in eastern North America, running northeast from Alabama in the United States to Newfoundland in Canada, variously including or excluding the Adirondack Mountains in northern New York.
- 2The portion of this area which lies in the southern United States, as a socioeconomic region.
Etymology
See Appalachian.
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); 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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Using “Appalachians”
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- The one correct English spelling is A-P-P-A-L-A-C-H-I-A-N-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.ʃənz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.