appel
/əˈpɛl/
"appel" is a 5-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“appel” is uncommon English (frequency #50,939 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,939
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.
Corpus desk
Index EN-appel · appel · English
appel · rank #50,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,939
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH Annapurna
Nearest frequency peer: Annapurna (-2 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 “appel”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- anachronism
anachronism
49,068 corpus weight
- Anglicans
Anglicans
49,065 corpus weight
- Annapurna
Annapurna
49,064 corpus weight
- appel
appel
49,062 corpus weight
- Artagnan
Artagnan
49,059 corpus weight
- ataxia
ataxia
49,055 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “appel” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | appel |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈpɛl/ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #50,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “appel” in English
Rare enough to double-check
appel is uncommon English at frequency #50,939 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed /əˈpɛl/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.".
Zero misspellings are on record for appel in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal. The correct English form is appel, spelled A-P-P-E-L.
Definition
- 1An act of striking the ground with the leading foot to frighten, distract, or mislead one's opponent.
Etymology
Borrowed from French appel. Doublet of appeal.
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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