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apparate

verb

apparate is spelled A-P-P-A-R-A-T-E: 8 letters. It appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a verb, apparate means “To appear magically; to teleport to or from a place” (English Wiktionary, September 2026).

How many letters and syllables are in apparate?

Letters8: A-P-P-A-R-A-T-E
In writingabout once in every 30 million words; the 167,786th most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is apparate?

Apparate appears about once in every 30 million words in written English, the 167,786th 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).

Forms of apparate

  • apparates present, singular, he/she/it
  • apparating participle, present
  • apparated participle, past

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does apparate mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

verb

  1. 1

    To appear magically; to teleport to or from a place.

noun

  1. 1

    obsoleteapparatus

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Apparate in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

In the sense to teleport to or from a place:

LanguageWords
Portugueseaparatar
Spanishaparatar, hacer aparecer

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does apparate come from?

From Late Latin apparēre (“to appear”), as of a servant who appears on being summoned. A back-formation from apparition.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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