Which to use
“appel” and “appels” are a confusable French pair: similar on the page, but distinct in meaning, check the gloss before you choose.
- #703
- “appel” frequency rank
- #3,122
- “appels” frequency rank
- 3825
- confusion score
Side-by-Side Comparison
| Feature | appel | appels |
|---|---|---|
| Definition | Action d’appeler par la voix, par un geste ou par tout autre signal, pour faire venir à soi. | Pluriel de appel. |
Same sound, different letters: appel vs appels
Muted letters are shared; highlighted letters are the only spelling cue when pronunciation matches. Shared run: 5 letters.
Ear matches; page differs - appel and appels
This is the hard kind. appel and appels are pronounced identically (\a.pɛl\) and both work as anoun. Neither the ear nor the grammar will rescue you; only the meaning does, so the glosses below are the whole decision. They differ by 1 extra letter(s) - “appel” sits inside “appels”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 3825, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.
appel is recorded at frequency rank #703, classified as anoun, pronounced \a.pɛl\. appels is at rank #3,122, tagged as anoun, pronounced \a.pɛl\.
Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.
With a confusion score of 3825, this pair ranks #433,123 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - a relatively easy-to-tell-apart pair.
Orthographic DNA of appel vs appels
Shared letters: aelp. Private to "appel": -. Private to "appels": s.
"appel" · 5 letters · shape VCCVC · "appels" · 6 letters · shape VCCVCC
Known mistypes of this pair
Frequently Asked Questions
Do "appel" and "appels" mean the same thing in a sentence?
Frequency check: "appel" vs "appels" - which ranks higher?
After this comparison
"appel" and "appels" share a sound, keep the gloss open, then jump to the headword or a nearby trap.
- Full dictionary entry for "appel" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
- Full dictionary entry for "appels" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
- This pair ranks #433,123 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
- "appel" and "appels" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appâts vs appels". Nearby pair
- Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes
Confusion rank #433,123 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.