alcatraz
\al.ka.tʁaz\
The verdict
“alcatraz” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,316. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,316
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Oiseau de mer d’Amérique et des Indes, qui paraît être un pélican.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcatraz · alcatraz · French
alcatraz · rank #48,316 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,316
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ajustées
Nearest frequency peer: ajustées (-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 « alcatraz »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aidaient
aidaient
51,688 corpus weight
- aiguiller
aiguiller
51,687 corpus weight
- ajustées
ajustées
51,686 corpus weight
- alcatraz
alcatraz
51,685 corpus weight
- algarve
algarve
51,684 corpus weight
- Alhambra
Alhambra
51,683 corpus weight
What this shows « alcatraz » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcatraz |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ka.tʁaz\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #48,316 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alcatraz »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around alcatraz (IPA \al.ka.tʁaz\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #48,316 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Oiseau de mer d’Amérique et des Indes, qui paraît être un pélican.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for alcatraz, with forms such as "aclatraz", "alactraz", and "alcartaz". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is alcatraz, spelled A-L-C-A-T-R-A-Z.
Definition
- 1Oiseau de mer d’Amérique et des Indes, qui paraît être un pélican.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alcatraz appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il connut toutes les bêtes merveilleuses, le rosmar, le râle-noir, le solendguse, les garagians semblables à des aigles de mer, les queues-de-jonc de l'île de Comore, les caper-calzes d'Écosse, les antenales qui vont par troupes, les alcatrazes grands comme des oies.
Une végétation vigoureuse recélait dans ses profondeurs des multitudes d'oiseaux pélagiques : des cormorans, des alcatraz, des canards siffleurs, mêlés aux bandes sautillantes des chevaliers.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclatraz
- alactraz
- alcartaz
- alcatarz
- alcatrazz
- alcatrraz
- alcatrza
- alcattraz
- alccatraz
- alctaraz
- allcatraz
- lacatraz
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alcatraz - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alcatraz", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).