ala
\a.la\
The verdict
“ala” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #26,249) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #26,249
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dix-neuvième et dernier mois du calendrier bahaï, correspondant environ à la période du 2 au 20 mars du calendrier grégorien. Il est précédé des jours intercalaires et est un mois de jeûne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ala · ala · French
ala · rank #26,249 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,249
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ajouta
Nearest frequency peer: ajouta (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ala »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- Agatha
Agatha
73,755 corpus weight
- aid
aid
73,754 corpus weight
- ajouta
ajouta
73,753 corpus weight
- ala
ala
73,752 corpus weight
- Alfredo
Alfredo
73,750 corpus weight
- Allard
Allard
73,749 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ala » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | ala |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.la\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #26,249 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ala »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ala is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.la\. Frequency #26,249 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Dix-neuvième et dernier mois du calendrier bahaï, correspondant environ à la période du 2 au 20 mars du calendrier grégorien. Il est précédé des jours intercalaires et est un mois de jeûne.".
Zero misspellings are on record for ala in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ala, spelled A-L-A.
Definition
- 1Dix-neuvième et dernier mois du calendrier bahaï, correspondant environ à la période du 2 au 20 mars du calendrier grégorien. Il est précédé des jours intercalaires et est un mois de jeûne.
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); 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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).