album

\al.bɔm\

/\al.bɔm\/ noun

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The verdict

“album” is a regularly-used French word, ranked #1,103 in French word frequency and used as a noun.

#1,103
frequency rank, French
5
letters
7
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Classeur, cahier ou registre destiné à recevoir des photographies, des dessins, des autographes, des cartes postales, des timbres… ou autres objets à conserver.

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

album vs alu
60% similar
album vs alur
60% similar
album vs alim
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for album
PropertyValue
Headwordalbum
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\al.bɔm\
Letters5
Frequency rank#1,103
Misspellings tracked7
Confusable pairs12
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “album” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). album lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for album is 5 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \al.bɔm\. Corpus data places it at rank #1,103 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text. Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for album, with forms such as "ablum", "albbum", and "albmu". 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 12 confusable-pair relationships, "alu", "alur", "alim", 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is album, spelled A-L-B-U-M.

Definition

  1. 1
    Classeur, cahier ou registre destiné à recevoir des photographies, des dessins, des autographes, des cartes postales, des timbres… ou autres objets à conserver.
  2. 2
    Recueil de compositions reproduites par la gravure.
  3. 3
    (Sens général) Disque de musique.
  4. 4
    Grand format de contenu musical d'un même artiste ou groupe, historiquement en format disque (disque vinyle, disque compact) et découpé en plusieurs pistes (pour la plupart inédites au moment de sa parution).
  5. 5
    Pochette, jaquette d'un disque de musique.
  6. 6
    Livre de bande dessinée.
  7. 7
    Petit livre, carnet où l'on peut écrire.
  8. 8
    Cahier, livret que les voyageurs des XVIII et XIXᵉ siècle, portaient en voyage et sur lesquels ils engageaient les savants et autres personnages illustres rencontrés à écrire leur nom avec une sentence ou devise.
  9. 9
    Tableau blanchi sur lesquels l’autorité faisait inscrire ce qu’elle voulait faire savoir au public.

This word in other languages

album(English)álbum(Español)Album(Deutsch)álbum(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: ablum,albbum,albmu,albumm,allbum,alubm,labum

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of album - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.

ablum2albbum1albmu2albumm1allbum1alubm2labum2
Edit distance from "album"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "album"?
"album" is spelled A-L-B-U-M. The IPA pronunciation is \al.bɔm\.
What does "album" mean?
As a noun, "album" means: Classeur, cahier ou registre destiné à recevoir des photographies, des dessins, des autographes, des cartes postales, des timbres… ou autres objets à conserver.
What words are commonly confused with "album"?
"album" is commonly confused with "alu", "alur", "alim". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "album"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "album" is \al.bɔm\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "album" come from?
"album" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “album”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-L-B-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \al.bɔm\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Don't mix it up with “alu” - see the side-by-side comparison. album vs alu
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list