appellervsappellesWhat's the difference?

Quick tell: appeller is a verb, appelles is a noun, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“appeller” is a verb and “appelles” is a noun - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#20,351
“appeller” frequency rank
#8,332
“appelles” frequency rank
28683
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature appeller appelles
Definition Variante de appeler. Pluriel de appelle.

Letter map: appeller vs appelles

Shared letters muted; letters that set appeller and appelles apart highlighted. Shared run: 7.

8 ch
appeller
8 ch
appelles

Grammar separator: appeller vs appelles

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: appeller is averb and appellesanoun. On the page they differ by a single letter - r in “appeller” becomes s in “appelles”. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 28683, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

appeller is recorded at frequency rank #20,351, classified as averb. appelles is at rank #8,332, 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 28683, this pair ranks #321,334 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of appeller vs appelles

Shared letters: aelp. Private to "appeller": r. Private to "appelles": s.

"appeller" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC  ·  "appelles" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCCVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • appellerapeller · apepller · appelelr · appellerr · appellre · appleler · papeller
  • appellesapelles · apeplles · appelels · appelless · appellse · appleles · papelles

Frequently Asked Questions

Can "appeller" and "appelles" be used interchangeably?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "appeller" is a verb and "appelles" a noun, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
Frequency check: "appeller" vs "appelles" - which ranks higher?
"appelles" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #8,332 in our French list, against #20,351 for "appeller". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "appeller" and "appelles". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "appeller" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "appelles" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #321,334 of 440,172 scored French confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "appeller" and "appelles" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "appeller vs appellerai". 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 #321,334 of 440,172 scored French pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list