alb
\ˈalb\
The verdict
“alb” is uncommon French (frequency #57,736 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,736
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Blanc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alb · alb · French
alb · rank #57,736 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,736
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aiguisée
Nearest frequency peer: aiguisée (-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 « alb »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ahurissante
ahurissante
42,268 corpus weight
- aiderais
aiderais
42,267 corpus weight
- aiguisée
aiguisée
42,266 corpus weight
- alb
alb
42,265 corpus weight
- alligators
alligators
42,264 corpus weight
- alourdi
alourdi
42,263 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alb » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alb |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈalb\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #57,736 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alb » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alb is uncommon French at frequency #57,736 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \ˈalb\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Blanc.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alb, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is alb, spelled A-L-B.
Definition
- 1Blanc.
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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