appears
/əˈpɪəz/
"appears" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“appears” has 8 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #1,518. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #1,518
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - third-person singular simple present indicative of appear
Corpus desk
Index EN-appears · appears · English
appears · rank #1,518 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #1,518
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH animals
Nearest frequency peer: animals (-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 “appears”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- agreed
agreed
98,486 corpus weight
- airport
airport
98,485 corpus weight
- animals
animals
98,484 corpus weight
- appears
appears
98,483 corpus weight
- begin
begin
98,482 corpus weight
- benefits
benefits
98,481 corpus weight
What this shows “appears” 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 | appears |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈpɪəz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #1,518 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “appears”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around appears (IPA /əˈpɪəz/), averb. Corpus frequency is #1,518 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "third-person singular simple present indicative of appear".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for appears, with forms such as "apears", "apepars", and "appaers". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "appease", "arrears", "appear", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct English form is appears, spelled A-P-P-E-A-R-S.
Definition
- 1third-person singular simple present indicative of appear
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appears appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It was aptly said by Newton that "whatever is not deduced from facts must be regarded as hypothesis," but hypothesis appears to us a title too honourable for the crude guessings to which we allude.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apears
- apepars
- appaers
- appearrs
- appearss
- appeasr
- apperas
- papears
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appears - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "appears", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked English headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).