Apollo
\a.pɔ.lo\
The verdict
“Apollo” sits in 3 confusable pairs (corpus #17,068) as a proper noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #17,068
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Série de missions aérospatiales qui a permis aux États-Unis d’envoyer pour la première fois des hommes sur la Lune.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apollo · Apollo · French
Apollo · rank #17,068 · 4 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,068
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anticorps
Nearest frequency peer: anticorps (-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 « Apollo »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- angelo
angelo
82,936 corpus weight
- anticipé
anticipé
82,935 corpus weight
- anticorps
anticorps
82,934 corpus weight
- Apollo
Apollo
82,933 corpus weight
- appréciable
appréciable
82,932 corpus weight
- archer
archer
82,931 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « Apollo » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | Apollo |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.pɔ.lo\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #17,068 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « Apollo »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for Apollo is neighbouring look-alikes ("atoll", "Apollon", …), not just typos; it is aproper noun pronounced \a.pɔ.lo\. Frequency #17,068 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for Apollo, with forms such as "aopllo", "aplolo", and "apolol". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "atoll", "Apollon", "allô", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Apollo, spelled A-P-O-L-L-O.
Definition
- 1Série de missions aérospatiales qui a permis aux États-Unis d’envoyer pour la première fois des hommes sur la Lune.
- 2Noms des engins spatiaux utilisés pour ces missions.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Apollo appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La salle de réception de la reine regroupe les cadeaux de dignitaires du monde entier comme des services à thé de Chine, des ivoires d’Inde, un boomerang d’Australie et un morceau de la lune de la mission Apollo 11 offert par Richard Nixon en 1973 […]
En 1979, il déclara que la durée de transmission du dialogue entre le contrôle au sol et Apollo 11 permettait techniquement à la NASA de censurer des informations.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aopllo
- aplolo
- apolol
- appollo
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Apollo - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).