appelait
\a.pə.lɛ\
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
- adversaires
adversaires
95,698 corpus weight
- agression
agression
95,697 corpus weight
- allaient
allaient
95,696 corpus weight
- appelait
appelait
95,695 corpus weight
- appelés
appelés
95,694 corpus weight
- attaché
attaché
95,693 corpus weight
What this shows « appelait » 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 | appelait |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.pə.lɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #4,306 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appelait »
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
- 1Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif imparfait du verbe appeler.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how appelait appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).