Alaska
\a.las.ka\
The verdict
“Alaska” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #14,596. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #14,596
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique, bordé par l’océan Arctique au nord (mer des Tchouktches et mer de Beaufort), le Canada à l’est (Yukon et Colombie-Britannique), le Pacifique Nord (...
Corpus desk
Index FR-alaska · Alaska · French
Alaska · rank #14,596 · 8 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #14,596
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aigu
Nearest frequency peer: aigu (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alaska »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- affaiblir
affaiblir
85,408 corpus weight
- agité
agité
85,407 corpus weight
- aigu
aigu
85,406 corpus weight
- Alaska
Alaska
85,405 corpus weight
- algorithmes
algorithmes
85,404 corpus weight
- Alstom
Alstom
85,403 corpus weight
What this shows « Alaska » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alaska |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.las.ka\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #14,596 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alaska »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Alaska (IPA \a.las.ka\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #14,596 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique, bordé par l’océan Arctique au nord (mer des Tchouktches et mer de Beaufort), le Canada à l’est (Yukon et Colombie-Britannique), le Pacifique Nord (...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alaska, with forms such as "aalska", "alaksa", and "alasak". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "Alyssa", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Alaska, spelled A-L-A-S-K-A.
Definition
- 1Un des cinquante États des États-Unis d’Amérique, bordé par l’océan Arctique au nord (mer des Tchouktches et mer de Beaufort), le Canada à l’est (Yukon et Colombie-Britannique), le Pacifique Nord (golfe d’Alaska) au sud, et la mer de Béring à l’ouest, et dont la capitale est Juneau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alaska appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Alors elle prie pour toutes celles qui disparaissent en Alaska, quatrième terre de par le monde où l’on assassine le plus de natives.
Les autorités prirent soin que ce mouvement ne leur glissât pas des mains, comme cela s’était produit en Californie et en Alaska ; elles le surveillèrent et le régulèrent constamment.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aalska
- alaksa
- alasak
- alaskka
- alasska
- allaska
- alsaka
- laaska
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alaska - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).