Apolline

\a.pɔ.lin\

/\a.pɔ.lin\/ name

The verdict

“Apolline” is uncommon French (frequency #55,745 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#55,745
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-apolline · Apolline · French

Apolline · rank #55,745 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #55,745
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH APN

Nearest frequency peer: APN (-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.

Rangs de longue queue près de « Apolline »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Apolline » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Apolline
PropertyValue
HeadwordApolline
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.pɔ.lin\
Letters8
Frequency rank#55,745
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Apolline » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Apollinetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Voisins rares de la même bande: « APN » (#55,744), « appartiendrait » (#55,746), « APF » (#55,743). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Apolline » est au #55,745. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Apolline is uncommon French at frequency #55,745 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.pɔ.lin\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".

Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Apolline, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Apolline, spelled A-P-O-L-L-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom féminin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Sainte Apolline, ou Apollonie, d'Alexandrie.
  2. Il y avait au bord d’une route un puits de sainte Apolline, dont l’eau guérissait les maux de dents. Je me souviens des gouttes bues dans le creux de la main, et de l’image pieuse de la martyre édentée par un bourreau romain, collée sur la joue, accompagnée d’un clou de girofle contre la gencive.

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 "Apolline"?
"Apolline" is spelled A-P-O-L-L-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pɔ.lin\.
What does "Apolline" mean?
As a proper noun, "Apolline" means: Prénom féminin.
How do you pronounce "Apolline"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Apolline" is \a.pɔ.lin\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list