Appalachians
/ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.ʃənz/
"appalachians" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Appalachians” is uncommon English (frequency #55,241 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,241
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 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...
Corpus desk
Index EN-appalachians · Appalachians · English
Appalachians · rank #55,241 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,241
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH apace
Nearest frequency peer: apace (-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.
Long-tail ranks near “Appalachians”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Anniston
Anniston
44,763 corpus weight
- Antiochus
Antiochus
44,762 corpus weight
- apace
apace
44,761 corpus weight
- Appalachians
Appalachians
44,760 corpus weight
- apportioned
apportioned
44,759 corpus weight
- ards
ards
44,758 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Appalachians” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| 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) |
Long-tail rank of “Appalachians” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Appalachians is uncommon English at frequency #55,241 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌæ.pəˈleɪ.ʃənz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).