apple-of-someone-s-eye

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The English entry for apple of someone's eye is 22 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ˌæpl̩‿əv sʌmwʌnz ˈaɪ/. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "The object of somebody's affections; a person (or sometimes a thing) that someone strongly prefers; a favorite, a loved one.".

No misspelling variants are generated for apple of someone's eye in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable English patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

Etymologically, the entry records: PIE word *h₂ébōl From Middle English appel of the eie (“pupil of the eye; cornea; (figurative) something highly valued”), from Old English æppel on the ēagan, used in biblical texts (Deuteronomy 32:10, Psalm 17:8; Proverbs 7:2, Lamentations 2:18, and Zecha… Root origin matters for spelling because borrowed morphemes (Greek, Latin, Old French, Old English) carry their source-language orthographic conventions into modern English, which is why historical etymology is often the cleanest predictor of whether a cluster like "-ough", "-eau", or "-tion" will appear. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct English form is apple of someone's eye, spelled A-P-P-L-E- -O-F- -S-O-M-E-O-N-E-'-S- -E-Y-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.