alaouite

\a.la.wit\

/\a.la.wit\/ adj

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

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alaouite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for alaouite
PropertyValue
Headwordalaouite
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.la.wit\
Letters8
Frequency rank#64,913
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « alaouite » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).alaouitetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « Albane » (#64,914), « agricultures » (#64,911), « albertaine » (#64,915). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « alaouite » est au #64,913. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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

  1. 1
    Relatif à une branche du chiisme, présente principalement en Syrie.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how alaouite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. […], 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.
  2. 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

noseïrisnouseyritenusayris

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alaouite"?
"alaouite" is spelled A-L-A-O-U-I-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.la.wit\.
What does "alaouite" mean?
As an adjective, "alaouite" means: Relatif à une branche du chiisme, présente principalement en Syrie.
How do you pronounce "alaouite"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alaouite" is \a.la.wit\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alaouite" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alaouite", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list