Alary

name

The verdict

“Alary” is uncommon French (frequency #72,895 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,895
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.

Corpus desk

Index FR-alary · Alary · French

Alary · rank #72,895 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,895
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH ajoutèrent

Nearest frequency peer: ajoutèrent (-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 « Alary »

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 « Alary » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Alary
PropertyValue
HeadwordAlary
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters5
Frequency rank#72,895
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Alary » en français

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Alarytombe 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: « ajoutèrent » (#72,894), « albon » (#72,896), « ajourée » (#72,893). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Alary » est au #72,895. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Alary is uncommon French at frequency #72,895 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".

No generated misspelling entries exist for Alary in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Alary, spelled A-L-A-R-Y.

Definition

  1. 1
    Nom de famille.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. « La France socialiste est un journal collaborationniste. Comprenez, il souhaite que Vichy aille encore plus loin dans sa politique de collaboration et de répression antisémite », détaille l’historien Éric Alary.

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 "Alary"?
"Alary" is spelled A-L-A-R-Y.
What does "Alary" mean?
As a proper noun, "Alary" means: Nom de famille.
What language does "Alary" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list