APEC

noun

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The verdict

“APEC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,772) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#43,772
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
3
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Coopération Économique Asie-Pacifique

Corpus desk

Index FR-apec · APEC · French

APEC · rank #43,772 · 3 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #43,772
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 3 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH apaisante

Nearest frequency peer: apaisante (-1 rank slots)

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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « APEC »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « APEC » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

APEC vs arc
0% similar
APEC vs axe
0% similar
APEC vs are
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for APEC
PropertyValue
HeadwordAPEC
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
Letters4
Frequency rank#43,772
Misspellings tracked3
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « APEC »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).APECse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « apaisante » (#43,771), « apostolat » (#43,773), « antimoine » (#43,770). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « APEC » est au #43,772. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for APEC is neighbouring look-alikes ("arc", "axe", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #43,772 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Coopération Économique Asie-Pacifique".

Our generated misspelling index lists 3 likely wrong-spelling variants for APEC, with forms such as "aepc", "apecc", and "appec". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "arc", "axe", "are", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is APEC, spelled A-P-E-C.

Definition

  1. 1
    Coopération Économique Asie-Pacifique

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how APEC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’APEC rassemble les pays bordant le Pacifique, des États-Unis à l'Australie, en passant par la Papouasie Nouvelle-Guinée, la Chine ou le Chili. Ils représentent ensemble 60 % du PIB mondial.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aepc
  • apecc
  • appec

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of APEC - 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.

aepc2apecc1appec1
Edit distance from "APEC"

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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "APEC"?
"APEC" is spelled A-P-E-C.
What does "APEC" mean?
As a noun, "APEC" means: Coopération Économique Asie-Pacifique
What words are commonly confused with "APEC"?
"APEC" is commonly confused with "arc", "axe", "are". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
What language does "APEC" come from?
"APEC" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "APEC", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

abcd#43,752Bahn#43,795Zion#43,740tiki#43,698

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list