Apollonia

name

The verdict

“Apollonia” is uncommon French (frequency #68,044 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#68,044
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Apollonie, nom de plusieurs localités de Grèce, d’Afrique, de Cyrénaïque, etc.

Corpus desk

Index FR-apollonia · Apollonia · French

Apollonia · rank #68,044 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #68,044
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH applicabilité

Nearest frequency peer: applicabilité (+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 « Apollonia »

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 « Apollonia » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Apollonia
PropertyValue
HeadwordApollonia
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters9
Frequency rank#68,044
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Apollonia » en français

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).Apolloniatombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « applicabilité » (#68,045), « argonautes » (#68,046), « ansi » (#68,041). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Apollonia » est au #68,044. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Apollonia is uncommon French at frequency #68,044 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Apollonie, nom de plusieurs localités de Grèce, d’Afrique, de Cyrénaïque, etc.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Apollonia in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Apollonia, spelled A-P-O-L-L-O-N-I-A.

Definition

  1. 1
    Apollonie, nom de plusieurs localités de Grèce, d’Afrique, de Cyrénaïque, etc.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Cyrenaica, eadem Pentapolitana regio, inlustratur Hammonis oraculo, quod a Cyrenis abest CCCC p., fonte Solis, urbibus maxime quinque, Berenice, Arsinoe, Ptolemaide, Apollonia ipsaque Cyrene. Berenice in Syrtis extimo cornu est, quondam vocata Hesperidum supra dictarum, vagantibus Graeciae fabulis. nec procul ante oppidum fluvius Lethon, lucus sacer, ubi…

Synonyms

Appolonis

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 "Apollonia"?
"Apollonia" is spelled A-P-O-L-L-O-N-I-A.
What does "Apollonia" mean?
As a proper noun, "Apollonia" means: Apollonie, nom de plusieurs localités de Grèce, d’Afrique, de Cyrénaïque, etc.
What language does "Apollonia" come from?
"Apollonia" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list