Alsace
/ælˈseɪs/
"alsace" is a 6-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Alsace” is a moderately-common English word, ranked #38,276 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #38,276
- frequency rank, English
- 6
- letters
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A cultural region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est. It has c...
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alsace |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ælˈseɪs/ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #38,276 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Alsace” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Alsace is 6 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /ælˈseɪs/. Corpus data places it at rank #38,276 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "A cultural region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est. It has c...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alsace, with forms such as "alasce", "allsace", and "alsacce". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Alice", "algae", "alpaca", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Medieval Latin Alsatia, from Old High German ali sazzo (“inhabitant of the other”) (referring to the opposite bank of the Rhine), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *sittjan (“to inhabit”, literally “to sit”). The correct English form is Alsace, spelled A-L-S-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1A cultural region, former administrative region, and historical province of France, located on the west bank of the upper Rhine; since 2016, part of the administrative region of Grand Est. It has changed hands between France and Germany several times throughout history.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin Alsatia, from Old High German ali sazzo (“inhabitant of the other”) (referring to the opposite bank of the Rhine), from Proto-West Germanic *alljas (“other”) + *sittjan (“to inhabit”, literally “to sit”).
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alasce,allsace,alsacce,alsaec,alscae,alssace,aslace,lasace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alsace - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Alsace”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-L-S-A-C-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /ælˈseɪs/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “Alice” - see the side-by-side comparison. Alsace vs Alice
- Browse more English words and confusable pairs in the same reference. English words
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.