alaise
\a.lɛz\
The verdict
“alaise” is uncommon French (frequency #92,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,398
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Osier ou jonc qui fixe une jeune branche d’arbre.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alaise · alaise · French
alaise · rank #92,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,398
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alaa
Nearest frequency peer: alaa (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « alaise »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ajourées
ajourées
7,606 corpus weight
- alaa
alaa
7,604 corpus weight
- alaise
alaise
7,603 corpus weight
- alber
alber
7,602 corpus weight
- altri
altri
7,599 corpus weight
- alvéolaires
alvéolaires
7,598 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alaise » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alaise |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɛz\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #92,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alaise » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alaise is uncommon French at frequency #92,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lɛz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
alaise has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alaise, spelled A-L-A-I-S-E.
Definition
- 1Osier ou jonc qui fixe une jeune branche d’arbre.
- 2Planche emboîtée dans une autre pour l’élargir. Rive ou cadre en bois dur servant à protéger un panneau de bois tendre ou de particules.
- 3Protection normalement en tissu imperméable que l’on place entre le matelas et les draps.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alaise appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un drap plié servait d’alaise sous le malade.
Le lieu de l’accouchement : c’est toujours la chambre à coucher, qui est en général celle de toute la famille, c’est presque toujours sur le lit conjugal, mais un autre peut aussi servir, sur lequel on aura étendu une alaise.
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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