Apulée
\a.py.le\
The verdict
“Apulée” is uncommon French (frequency #85,471 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,471
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écrivain de l’Empire romain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-apulee · Apulée · French
Apulée · rank #85,471 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,471
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH apposant
Nearest frequency peer: apposant (-2 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « Apulée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Antiochus
Antiochus
14,535 corpus weight
- antipape
antipape
14,534 corpus weight
- apposant
apposant
14,532 corpus weight
- Apulée
Apulée
14,530 corpus weight
- Arbour
Arbour
14,528 corpus weight
- Arfi
Arfi
14,527 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Apulée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Apulée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.py.le\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,471 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Apulée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Apulée is uncommon French at frequency #85,471 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.py.le\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écrivain de l’Empire romain.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Apulée in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Apulée, spelled A-P-U-L-É-E.
Definition
- 1Écrivain de l’Empire romain.
This word in other languages
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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