appela
\a.pə.la\
The verdict
“appela” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #23,762. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #23,762
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appeler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appela · appela · French
appela · rank #23,762 · 5 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #23,762
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apparaîtra
Nearest frequency peer: apparaîtra (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « appela »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- apparaitre
apparaitre
76,241 corpus weight
- apparaîtra
apparaîtra
76,240 corpus weight
- appela
appela
76,239 corpus weight
- area
area
76,237 corpus weight
- arrivèrent
arrivèrent
76,236 corpus weight
- arêtes
arêtes
76,235 corpus weight
What this shows « appela » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | appela |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pə.la\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #23,762 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appela »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around appela (IPA \a.pə.la\), averb. Corpus frequency is #23,762 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appeler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for appela, with forms such as "apela", "apepla", and "appella". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "apple", "appli", "appelé", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is appela, spelled A-P-P-E-L-A.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appeler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appela appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand cette image de la mort en turban crasseux, en casaquin sinistre, regarda les grains de millet que la poule noire piquait, et appela son crapaud Astaroth pour qu’il se promenât sur les cartes étalées, Mme Cibot eut froid dans le dos, elle tressaillit.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apela
- apepla
- appella
- applea
- papela
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appela - 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.
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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).