appela

\a.pə.la\

/\a.pə.la\/ verb

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

corpus weight

What this shows « appela » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

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).

appela vs apple
67% similar
appela vs appli
67% similar
appela vs appelé
83% similar

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

Key facts for appela
PropertyValue
Headwordappela
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pə.la\
Letters6
Frequency rank#23,762
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appela »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).appelase place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « apparaîtra » (#23,761), « apparaitre » (#23,760), « area » (#23,764). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appela » est au #23,762. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appeler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. 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.

apela1apepla2appella1applea2papela2
Edit distance from "appela"

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 "appela"?
"appela" is spelled A-P-P-E-L-A. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pə.la\.
What does "appela" mean?
As a verb, "appela" means: Troisième personne du singulier du passé simple du verbe appeler.
What words are commonly confused with "appela"?
"appela" is commonly confused with "apple", "appli", "appelé". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appela"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appela" is \a.pə.la\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appela" come from?
"appela" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

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).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list