alsatian
/ælˈseɪʃən/noun
alsatian is spelled A-L-S-A-T-I-A-N. The wrong spelling people search most is alsation: about 50 Bing searches a month in the United States (September 2025 to August 2026), about 1 in 14 of all searches for the word. Alsatian is a noun meaning “Alternative letter-case form of Alsatian”. The plural of alsatian is alsatians.
How many letters and syllables are in alsatian?
| Letters | 8: A-L-S-A-T-I-A-N |
|---|---|
| Syllables | 3 (from its American pronunciation) |
| In writing | about once in every 5 million words; the 65,913th most frequent word form |
| Wrong spellings searched | 1; the most searched, alsation, about 50 Bing searches a month (all of them) |
Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation and the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media); Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026).
How do you spell alsatian?
Alsatian is spelled A-L-S-A-T-I-A-N. One wrong spelling is searched or written often enough to measure; together they are about 1 in 14 of the searches for alsatian in either form.
Bing searches in the United States: the average month from September 2025 to August 2026 (Microsoft Advertising keyword data through DataForSEO, read September 30, 2026). Wrong spellings are taken from Wiktionary entries tagged "misspelling" and its obsolete or nonstandard forms, Wikipedia's Lists of common misspellings and the codespell dictionary, then measured. The proofreader's marks show the change that corrects each one.
How common is alsatian?
Alsatian appears about once in every 5 million words in written English, the 65,913th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
How do you pronounce alsatian?
- /ælˈseɪʃən/
Alsatian has 3 syllables (counted from its American pronunciation in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: EN-AU_ck1_Alsatian.ogg, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of alsatian
- alsatians plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
What does alsatian mean?
The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).
noun
- 1
Alternative letter-case form of Alsatian.
adjective
- 1
Of, from or relating to Alsace (now part of the administrative region of Grand Est, France).
noun
- 1
A native or inhabitant of Alsace (now part of the administrative region of Grand Est, France).
- 2
AustraliaUKUSdatedA German shepherd dog.
- 3
UKobsoleteA rogue or debauchee, like those who haunted Alsatia in London.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Alsatian in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | alsacien , Alsacien, Alsacienne |
| German | elsässisch , Elsässer, Elsässerin |
| Portuguese | alsaciano |
| Spanish | alsaciano |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does alsatian come from?
From Medieval Latin Alsatia + English -an.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).