appelait

\a.pə.lɛ\

/\a.pə.lɛ\/ verb

The verdict

“appelait” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,306. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#4,306
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
9
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appeler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-appelait · appelait · French

appelait · rank #4,306 · 9 variants · 9 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #4,306
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH allaient

Nearest frequency peer: allaient (-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 « appelait »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « appelait » 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).

appelait vs appétit
63% similar
appelait vs appelant
88% similar
appelait vs appuyait
75% similar

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

Key facts for appelait
PropertyValue
Headwordappelait
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.pə.lɛ\
Letters8
Frequency rank#4,306
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs9
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appelait »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).appelaitse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « allaient » (#4,305), « appelés » (#4,307), « agression » (#4,304). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appelait » est au #4,306. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around appelait (IPA \a.pə.lɛ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #4,306 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appeler.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for appelait, with forms such as "apelait", "apeplait", and "appealit". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "appétit", "appelant", "appuyait", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is appelait, spelled A-P-P-E-L-A-I-T.

Definition

  1. 1
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appeler.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Toutefois, le millionnaire était un peu vexé par le peu d’ardeur que manifestait son neveu par alliance à faire la connaissance de « l’objet de sa flamme » ainsi qu’il appelait Chonchon, pompeusement.
  2. Allons ! tiens-toi calme, Béga (il s’appelait Béga), lui répondis-je, nous nous casernerons à tour de rôle chez toi jusqu’à ton départ.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apelait
  • apeplait
  • appealit
  • appelaitt
  • appelati
  • appeliat
  • appellait
  • appleait
  • papelait

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appelait - 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.

apelait1apeplait2appealit2appelaitt1appelati2appeliat2appellait1appleait2
Edit distance from "appelait"

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 "appelait"?
"appelait" is spelled A-P-P-E-L-A-I-T. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pə.lɛ\.
What does "appelait" mean?
As a verb, "appelait" means: Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appeler.
What words are commonly confused with "appelait"?
"appelait" is commonly confused with "appétit", "appelant", "appuyait". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appelait"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appelait" is \a.pə.lɛ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appelait" come from?
"appelait" 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 "appelait", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list