alaque
\a.lak\
The verdict
“alaque” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Élément de construction, carré et plat, qui sert d'assise à la base des colonnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alaque · alaque · French
alaque · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 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 | alaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lak\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alaque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alaque is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Élément de construction, carré et plat, qui sert d'assise à la base des colonnes.".
No misspelling variants are generated for alaque in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alaque, spelled A-L-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Élément de construction, carré et plat, qui sert d'assise à la base des colonnes.
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.