album
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#1,103
in French word usage
Misspellings
7
tracked variants
Confusables
12
similar word pairs
album is aFrenchnoun. It means: Classeur, cahier ou registre destiné à recevoir des photographies, des dessins, des autographes, des cartes postales, des timbres… ou autres objets à conserver. Pronounced \al.bɔm\. It ranks #1,103 in French word frequency. Often confused with alu and alur.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | album |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.bɔm\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #1,103 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for album is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, 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 Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 7 documented wrong-spelling variants for album, with forms such as "ablum", "albbum", and "albmu". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "alu", "alur", "alim", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is album, spelled A-L-B-U-M, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Classeur, cahier ou registre destiné à recevoir des photographies, des dessins, des autographes, des cartes postales, des timbres… ou autres objets à conserver.
- 2Recueil de compositions reproduites par la gravure.
- 3(Sens général) Disque de musique.
- 4Grand 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).
- 5Pochette, jaquette d'un disque de musique.
- 6Livre de bande dessinée.
- 7Petit livre, carnet où l'on peut écrire.
- 8Cahier, 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.
- 9Tableau blanchi sur lesquels l’autorité faisait inscrire ce qu’elle voulait faire savoir au public.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: ablum,albbum,albmu,albumm,allbum,alubm,labum
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for album
Misspelling Variants of "album"
Frequency rank: #1,103 in French
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