ailleurs
\a.jœʁ\
The verdict
“ailleurs” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #261. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #261
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En un autre lieu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ailleurs · ailleurs · French
ailleurs · rank #261 · 9 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #261
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH sens
Nearest frequency peer: sens (-1 rank slots)
Desk codes from Wiktionary headword shape, FrequencyWords rank tier, confusable-pair count, generated misspelling depth, letter-cohort book size, and photo-finish peer. Not a difficulty grade.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « ailleurs »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- question
question
99,743 corpus weight
- raison
raison
99,742 corpus weight
- sens
sens
99,741 corpus weight
- ailleurs
ailleurs
99,740 corpus weight
- avez
avez
99,739 corpus weight
- certains
certains
99,738 corpus weight
What this shows « ailleurs » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
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 | ailleurs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a.jœʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #261 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « ailleurs »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around ailleurs (IPA \a.jœʁ\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #261 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for ailleurs, with forms such as "ailelurs", "aileurs", and "aillerus". 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, "allers", "artilleurs", "ailles", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is ailleurs, spelled A-I-L-L-E-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1En un autre lieu.
- 2Dans un autre passage d’un document.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ailleurs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ailleurs, elles relèvent leur châle sur leur tête, et se trouvent toutes drapées pour un peintre.
Sans cette hantise de retrouver ses assassins, depuis beau jour, Marcoul serait ailleurs. Il aurait obtenu sa mutation.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailelurs
- aileurs
- aillerus
- ailleurrs
- ailleurss
- ailleusr
- ailluers
- alileurs
- ialleurs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of ailleurs - 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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "ailleurs", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).