aligot
/æ.li.ɡoʊ/
"aligot" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“aligot” is uncommon English (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency English
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A dish traditionally made in the south of Auvergne from melted Tomme cheese blended into mashed potatoes, often with garlic.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aligot |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | /æ.li.ɡoʊ/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aligot” sits in English frequency
Rare enough to double-check
aligot is uncommon English outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed /æ.li.ɡoʊ/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A dish traditionally made in the south of Auvergne from melted Tomme cheese blended into mashed potatoes, often with garlic.".
Zero misspellings are on record for aligot in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from French aligot. The correct English form is aligot, spelled A-L-I-G-O-T.
Definition
- 1A dish traditionally made in the south of Auvergne from melted Tomme cheese blended into mashed potatoes, often with garlic.
Etymology
Borrowed from French aligot.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “aligot”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-L-I-G-O-T - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.