appellations
\a.pe.la.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“appellations” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,444. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,444
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de appellation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-appellations · appellations · French
appellations · rank #19,444 · 14 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #19,444
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH appartenaient
Nearest frequency peer: appartenaient (-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 « appellations »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- annonceurs
annonceurs
80,560 corpus weight
- APL
APL
80,559 corpus weight
- appartenaie…
appartenaient
80,558 corpus weight
- appellations
appellations
80,557 corpus weight
- approximati…
approximative
80,556 corpus weight
- asso
asso
80,555 corpus weight
What this shows « appellations » 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 | appellations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.pe.la.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #19,444 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « appellations »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around appellations (IPA \a.pe.la.sjɔ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,444 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de appellation.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for appellations, with forms such as "apellations", "apepllations", and "appelaltions". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "appellation", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is appellations, spelled A-P-P-E-L-L-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de appellation.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how appellations appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On les désignait généralement, le premier sous le nom de gros Zidore, le second sous celui de gros Léon, appellations qui leur seyaient d’autant mieux qu’ils avaient conquis, comme il convenait à leur âge et à leur position sociale, la pointe de bedon qui confère toute son importance au campagnard cossu.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apellations
- apepllations
- appelaltions
- appelations
- appellaitons
- appellatinos
- appellationns
- appellationss
- appellatiosn
- appellatoins
- appellattions
- appelltaions
- applelations
- papellations
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of appellations - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).