alacrité
\a.la.kʁi.te\
The verdict
“alacrité” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Allégresse, enjouement, entrain.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alacrite · alacrité · French
alacrité · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alacrité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.la.kʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alacrité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alacrité is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.la.kʁi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Allégresse, enjouement, entrain.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alacrité, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alacrité, spelled A-L-A-C-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Allégresse, enjouement, entrain.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alacrité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était invraisemblable, incroyable, que des Allemands eussent passé là sans qu’on eût entendu la moindre fusillade — d’un autre côté, la tranquillité presque paysanne de ces promeneurs en cet instant n’était pas rassurante outre mesure : à voir la façon dont l’homme de tout à l’heure s’était « replié », le lieutenant G. trouvait que les silhouettes bona…
Son esprit restait étincelant. Son intelligence n’avait rien perdu de son alacrité.
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.