alarme
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,831
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
8
similar word pairs
alarme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Signal pour faire courir aux armes ou pour appeler au secours. Pronounced \a.laʁm\. It ranks #5,831 in French word frequency. Often confused with armé and avare.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alarme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.laʁm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #5,831 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for alarme is 6 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.laʁm\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,831 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 7 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for alarme, with forms such as "aalrme", "alamre", and "alarem". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "armé", "avare", "alerte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is alarme, spelled A-L-A-R-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Signal pour faire courir aux armes ou pour appeler au secours.
- 2Émotion causée dans un camp, dans une place de guerre, à l’approche ou sur le bruit de l’approche des ennemis.
- 3Toute sorte de frayeur subite.
- 4Inquiétude, souci, chagrin.
- 5Signal avertissant d'un danger.
- 6Appareil déclenchant ce signal.
- 7(Par atténuation) Avertissement sonore et visuel pour rappeler un événement, un rendez-vous, de la part du logiciel (application) gestionnaire d’emploi du temps sur un ordinateur ou un téléphone portable.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aalrme,alamre,alarem,alarmme,alarrme,allarme,alrame,laarme
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Misspelling Variants of "alarme"
Frequency rank: #5,831 in French
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