album

\al.bɔm\

/\al.bɔm\/ noun

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The verdict

“album” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #1,103. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#1,103
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
7
tracked misspellings
12
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Classeur, cahier ou registre destiné à recevoir des photographies, des dessins, des autographes, des cartes postales, des timbres… ou autres objets à conserver.

Corpus desk

Index FR-album · album · French

album · rank #1,103 · 7 variants · 12 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,103
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
  • VAR-MID 7 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH York

Nearest frequency peer: York (-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 « album »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « album » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

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)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « album »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).albumse place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « York » (#1,102), « ancienne » (#1,104), « trucs » (#1,101). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « album » est au #1,103. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 7 spelling variants around album (IPA \al.bɔm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #1,103 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 9 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

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.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how album appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Album photo.
  2. Écrire une pensée sur un album.

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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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "album", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

trucs#1,101tient#1,100tenir#1,099crise#1,109

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).

attend7 variantsDavid7 variantsclair7 variantstiens7 variants

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list