albatros
\al.ba.tʁos\
The verdict
“albatros” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,694. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,694
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oiseau palmipède des mers australes comptant une vingtaine d’espèces, la grande envergure de leurs ailes en fait des voiliers exceptionnels.
Corpus desk
Index FR-albatros · albatros · French
albatros · rank #36,694 · 12 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,694
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aimeront
Nearest frequency peer: aimeront (-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 « albatros »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- afférents
afférents
63,310 corpus weight
- agréée
agréée
63,309 corpus weight
- aimeront
aimeront
63,308 corpus weight
- albatros
albatros
63,307 corpus weight
- Albertville
Albertville
63,306 corpus weight
- alcoolisé
alcoolisé
63,305 corpus weight
What this shows « albatros » 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 | albatros |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ba.tʁos\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,694 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « albatros »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around albatros (IPA \al.ba.tʁos\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #36,694 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Oiseau palmipède des mers australes comptant une vingtaine d’espèces, la grande envergure de leurs ailes en fait des voiliers exceptionnels.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for albatros, with forms such as "ablatros", "alabtros", and "albartos". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "albâtre", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is albatros, spelled A-L-B-A-T-R-O-S.
Definition
- 1Oiseau palmipède des mers australes comptant une vingtaine d’espèces, la grande envergure de leurs ailes en fait des voiliers exceptionnels.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how albatros appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’albatros est le plus gros des oiseaux palmipèdes ; il est reconnoissable à sa corporance massive qui lui a fait donner le nom de mouton du Cap, en le comparant à ce quadrupède pour sa grosseur.
Souvent, pour s’amuser, les hommes d’équipage Prennent des albatros, vastes oiseaux des mers, Qui suivent, indolents compagnons de voyage, Le navire glissant sur les gouffres amers.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ablatros
- alabtros
- albartos
- albators
- albatross
- albatrros
- albatrso
- albattros
- albbatros
- albtaros
- allbatros
- labatros
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of albatros - 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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Same letter count
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