albâtre
\al.bɑtʁ\
The verdict
“albâtre” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,716. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,716
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Gypse d’une pâte homogène, d’un grain fin, demi-translucide, susceptible d’un beau poli, et qui présente quelquefois des veines colorées.
Corpus desk
Index FR-albatre · albâtre · French
albâtre · rank #47,716 · 11 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,716
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alcide
Nearest frequency peer: alcide (+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 « albâtre »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- actée
actée
52,289 corpus weight
- agrégés
agrégés
52,288 corpus weight
- albâtre
albâtre
52,285 corpus weight
- alcide
alcide
52,284 corpus weight
- alloue
alloue
52,283 corpus weight
- amovibles
amovibles
52,281 corpus weight
What this shows « albâtre » 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 | albâtre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.bɑtʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #47,716 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « albâtre »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around albâtre (IPA \al.bɑtʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,716 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for albâtre, with forms such as "ablâtre", "albatre", and "albbâtre". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "arbitre", "albatros", "abattre", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is albâtre, spelled A-L-B-Â-T-R-E.
Definition
- 1Gypse d’une pâte homogène, d’un grain fin, demi-translucide, susceptible d’un beau poli, et qui présente quelquefois des veines colorées.
- 2Blanc. — #FEFEFE
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how albâtre appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
― Ô ma chère Laura, lui dis-je avec effort en appuyant mes lèvres sur sa main, comment peux-tu appliquer le mot de travail ingrat à l’admirable voyage que nous avons fait ensemble dans le cristal ? Rends-moi cette resplendissante vision des océans d’opale et des îles de lapis ! Retournons aux verts bosquets de la chrysoprase et aux sublimes rivages de l’e…
Un mort était dessus. Ses pieds pâles et mats, comme de l’albâtre lavé, dépassaient le bout du drap qui l’enveloppait.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablâtre
- albatre
- albbâtre
- albtâre
- albârte
- albâter
- albâtrre
- albâttre
- allbâtre
- alâbtre
- labâtre
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of albâtre - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).