alaouite
\a.la.wit\
The verdict
“alaouite” is uncommon French (frequency #64,913 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,913
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à une branche du chiisme, présente principalement en Syrie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alaouite · alaouite · French
alaouite · rank #64,913 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,913
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Albane
Nearest frequency peer: Albane (+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 « alaouite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Agassiz
Agassiz
35,092 corpus weight
- agnel
agnel
35,091 corpus weight
- agricultures
agricultures
35,090 corpus weight
- alaouite
alaouite
35,088 corpus weight
- Albane
Albane
35,087 corpus weight
- albertaine
albertaine
35,086 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alaouite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alaouite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.la.wit\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #64,913 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alaouite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alaouite is uncommon French at frequency #64,913 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.la.wit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Relatif à une branche du chiisme, présente principalement en Syrie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for alaouite, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is alaouite, spelled A-L-A-O-U-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Relatif à une branche du chiisme, présente principalement en Syrie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alaouite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…], on ne peut pas honnêtement ignorer un conflit […] entre hérétiques alaouites et musulmans strictement orthodoxes ou sunnites, en Syrie, sous le régime du président Hafiz al-Asad.
Quand, en 2012, neuf employés alaouites sont enlevés, Lafarge négocie et paie — « Je confirme, bien entendu », indique Jean-Claude Veillard, directeur de la sûreté — 200 000 euros aux ravisseurs.
Synonyms
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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