applause
/əˈplɔːz/
"applause" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“applause” has 9 generated spelling variants in the English index at frequency #9,136. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,136
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
Corpus desk
Index EN-applause · applause · English
applause · rank #9,136 · 9 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,136
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH appealed
Nearest frequency peer: appealed (-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 “applause”
Same rarity band: useful when a typo lands on a peer headword
- Ahmed
Ahmed
90,868 corpus weight
- allocated
allocated
90,867 corpus weight
- appealed
appealed
90,866 corpus weight
- applause
applause
90,865 corpus weight
- bald
bald
90,864 corpus weight
- boil
boil
90,862 corpus weight
What this shows “applause” 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 | applause |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /əˈplɔːz/ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #9,136 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency seat of misspelling magnet “applause”
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around applause (IPA /əˈplɔːz/), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,136 among 3,931 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for applause, with forms such as "aplause", "aplpause", and "appaluse". 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, "applaud", "appease", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin applausus, from applaudō (“I strike against, I applaud”) (whence applaud). The correct English form is applause, spelled A-P-P-L-A-U-S-E.
Definition
- 1The act of applauding; approbation and praise publicly expressed by the clapping of hands, stamping or tapping of the feet, acclamation, huzzas, or other means; marked commendation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how applause appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A few days before, the adulations and applauses of a nation were sounding in her [Marie Louise, Duchess of Parma's] ears, and now she was come to this!
Lestrade and I sat silent for a moment, and then, with a spontaneous impulse, we both broke at clapping, as at the well-wrought crisis of a play. […] It was at such moments that for an instant he [Sherlock Holmes] ceased to be a reasoning machine, and betrayed his human love for admiration and applause.
Etymology
From Latin applausus, from applaudō (“I strike against, I applaud”) (whence applaud).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aplause
- aplpause
- appaluse
- applasue
- applaues
- applausse
- appllause
- appluase
- paplause
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of applause - 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
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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 (9 here; floor ≥5).