Tier four of five
How to spell apocalypse
What it means
a great and final disaster
How it sounds
/əˈpɑkəˌlɪps/
Why it catches people out
Ends -lypse, with a y before the p.
The spellings people reach for
- apocolypse
- appocalypse
- aphocalypse
In a sentence
The film imagined an apocalypse.