appelaient
\a.pə.lɛ\
The verdict
“appelaient” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,803. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,803
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appeler.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appelaient · appelaient · French
appelaient · rank #16,803 · 12 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,803
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Antonin
Nearest frequency peer: Antonin (-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 « appelaient »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- angoisses
angoisses
83,200 corpus weight
- Antonin
Antonin
83,199 corpus weight
- appelaient
appelaient
83,198 corpus weight
- apprenne
apprenne
83,197 corpus weight
- architectur…
architectural
83,196 corpus weight
- Ariel
Ariel
83,195 corpus weight
What this shows « appelaient » 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 | appelaient |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pə.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #16,803 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appelaient »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around appelaient (IPA \a.pə.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #16,803 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appeler.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for appelaient, with forms such as "apelaient", "apeplaient", and "appealient". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "appelait", "appelant", "appellent", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is appelaient, spelled A-P-P-E-L-A-I-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appeler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appelaient appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
J’ai vu, aux premiers jours du printemps, sous les berceaux de pampres qui s’enlacent aux figuiers de l’Adriatique, des matrones, drapées presque à la manière de l’ancienne Grèce, qui recueillaient avec soin dans des fioles ce qu’elles appelaient poétiquement les larmes de la vigne.
Ils étaient originaires de Sicile, membres de l’Onorata società en quête de légitimité. Mais l’honorable société en question, que l’on appellerait plus tard la mafia, dont on saurait encore plus tard que les initiés l’appelaient Cosa Nostra, n’existait pas quand la villa Orsini avait été construite.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apelaient
- apeplaient
- appealient
- appelaeint
- appelaiennt
- appelaientt
- appelaietn
- appelainet
- appeliaent
- appellaient
- appleaient
- papelaient
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appelaient - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
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Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).