appellation

\a.pɛl.la.sjɔ̃\

/\a.pɛl.la.sjɔ̃\/ noun

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The verdict

“appellation” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,331. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,331
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
12
tracked misspellings
1
confusable pair

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Action d’appeler.

Corpus desk

Index FR-appellation · appellation · French

appellation · rank #8,331 · 12 variants · 1 confusable

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,331
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
  • VAR-MID 12 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH Anvers

Nearest frequency peer: Anvers (-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 « appellation »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « appellation » 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).

appellation vs appellations
92% similar

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

Key facts for appellation
PropertyValue
Headwordappellation
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.pɛl.la.sjɔ̃\
Letters11
Frequency rank#8,331
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs1
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appellation »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).appellationse 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 « Anvers » (#8,330), « appelles » (#8,332), « allumer » (#8,329). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « appellation » est au #8,331. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 12 spelling variants around appellation (IPA \a.pɛl.la.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #8,331 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for appellation, with forms such as "apellation", "apepllation", and "appelaltion". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "appellations", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is appellation, spelled A-P-P-E-L-L-A-T-I-O-N.

Definition

  1. 1
    Action d’appeler.
  2. 2
    Façon de dénommer quelqu’un ou quelque chose.
  3. 3
    Action de nommer chaque lettre de l’alphabet.
  4. 4
    Appel d’un jugement.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Appellation à haute voix, familière, injurieuse.
  2. Ces nodules sphéroïdes ou cylindroïdes, si singulièrement affublés, en Champagne, comme en Picardie ou en Haute-Normandie, de l’appellation imprévue de pierres de tonnerre ou de pierres de foudre sont formés de cristaux prismatiques de bisulfure de fer irradiant de leur centre.

This word in other languages

moniker(English)denominación(Español)Bezeichnung(Deutsch)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apellation
  • apepllation
  • appelaltion
  • appelation
  • appellaiton
  • appellatino
  • appellationn
  • appellatoin
  • appellattion
  • appelltaion
  • applelation
  • papellation

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

apellation1apepllation2appelaltion2appelation1appellaiton2appellatino2appellationn1appellatoin2
Edit distance from "appellation"

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 "appellation"?
"appellation" is spelled A-P-P-E-L-L-A-T-I-O-N. The IPA pronunciation is \a.pɛl.la.sjɔ̃\.
What does "appellation" mean?
As a noun, "appellation" means: Action d’appeler.
What words are commonly confused with "appellation"?
"appellation" is commonly confused with "appellations". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "appellation"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "appellation" is \a.pɛl.la.sjɔ̃\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "appellation" come from?
"appellation" 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 "appellation", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

architectes#8,334bizarrement#8,344techniciens#8,315secrétariat#8,307

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).

allocation12 variantsvendeurs12 variantscadavres12 variantscarrières12 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list