Albany
\al.ba.ni\
The verdict
“Albany” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #37,163. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #37,163
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de l’État de New York, aux États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-albany · Albany · French
Albany · rank #37,163 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,163
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alarmer
Nearest frequency peer: alarmer (-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 « Albany »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ajoutes
ajoutes
62,841 corpus weight
- ajustée
ajustée
62,840 corpus weight
- alarmer
alarmer
62,839 corpus weight
- Albany
Albany
62,838 corpus weight
- Allociné
Allociné
62,837 corpus weight
- allégée
allégée
62,835 corpus weight
What this shows « Albany » 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 | Albany |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.ba.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #37,163 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Albany »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around Albany (IPA \al.ba.ni\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #37,163 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville de l’État de New York, aux États-Unis.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for Albany, with forms such as "ablany", "alabny", and "albanny". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Allan", "Albin", "allant", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Albany, spelled A-L-B-A-N-Y.
Definition
- 1Ville de l’État de New York, aux États-Unis.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablany
- alabny
- albanny
- albanyy
- albayn
- albbany
- albnay
- allbany
- labany
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Albany - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Albany", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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 (9 here; floor ≥5).