appease
/əˈpiːz/
"appease" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“appease” has 7 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #22,290. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,290
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
Corpus desk
Index EN-appease · appease · English
appease · rank #22,290 · 7 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,290
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Antwerp
Nearest frequency peer: Antwerp (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “appease”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- ani
ani
77,714 corpus weight
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Antifa
77,713 corpus weight
- Antwerp
Antwerp
77,712 corpus weight
- appease
appease
77,711 corpus weight
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aptitude
77,710 corpus weight
- arisen
arisen
77,709 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “appease” sits against the nearest ranked English headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | appease |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | /əˈpiːz/ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,290 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “appease” sits in English frequency
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around appease (IPA /əˈpiːz/), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,290 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for appease, with forms such as "apease", "apepase", and "appaese". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "applause", "appear", "appeal", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Middle English apesen, from Old French apeser (“to pacify, bring to peace”). The correct English form is appease, spelled A-P-P-E-A-S-E.
Definition
- 1To make quiet; to calm; to reduce to a state of peace; to dispel (anger or hatred).
- 2To come to terms with; to adapt to the demands of.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appease appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
to appease the tumult of the ocean
'First, a little refreshment to reward my exertions. You may as well be quiet. It is not the first time, or the second, that your veins have appeased my thirst!'
Etymology
From Middle English apesen, from Old French apeser (“to pacify, bring to peace”).
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apease
- apepase
- appaese
- appeaes
- appeasse
- appesae
- papease
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appease - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "appease", 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 (7 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "appease" maps to 7 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "applause". View pair
- 7 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #22,290 among English headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
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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.