appalled
"appalled" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“appalled” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #21,135. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #21,135
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.
Corpus desk
Index EN-appalled · appalled · English
appalled · rank #21,135 · 8 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #21,135
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH apiece
Nearest frequency peer: apiece (-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.
Rank peers near misspelling magnet “appalled”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- AOL
AOL
78,869 corpus weight
- APC
APC
78,868 corpus weight
- apiece
apiece
78,867 corpus weight
- appalled
appalled
78,866 corpus weight
- appreciative
appreciative
78,865 corpus weight
- arched
arched
78,864 corpus weight
What this shows “appalled” sits among these FrequencyWords peers; misspelling depth is tracked separately in the edit-distance chart.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appalled |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #21,135 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “appalled”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around appalled, anadjective. Corpus frequency is #21,135 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for appalled, with forms such as "apalled", "apaplled", and "appaled". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "applied", "appealed", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From appall + -ed The correct English form is appalled, spelled A-P-P-A-L-L-E-D.
Definition
- 1Shocked, horrified by something unpleasant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appalled appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
But the purported rise in violent videos online has led some MPs to campaign for courts to have more power to remove or block material on YouTube. The Labour MP Heidi Alexander said she was appalled after a constituent was robbed at knifepoint, and the attackers could be found brandishing weapons and rapping about gang violence online.
West's friends were so appalled by the nature of his death that they arranged for a wooden memorial in the churchyard of St Laurence's, constructed aptly from a railway sleeper.
Etymology
From appall + -ed
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apalled
- apaplled
- appaled
- appaleld
- appallde
- appalledd
- applaled
- papalled
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appalled - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar English words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).