Alceste
\al.sɛst\
The verdict
“Alceste” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #48,906. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #48,906
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fille de Pélias, roi d'Iolcos en Thessalie et d'Anaxibie, ramenée des Enfers après s’être empoisonnée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alceste · Alceste · French
Alceste · rank #48,906 · 10 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #48,906
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH albertains
Nearest frequency peer: albertains (-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 « Alceste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ains
ains
51,098 corpus weight
- alarmistes
alarmistes
51,097 corpus weight
- albertains
albertains
51,096 corpus weight
- Alceste
Alceste
51,095 corpus weight
- Alexandria
Alexandria
51,094 corpus weight
- allergènes
allergènes
51,093 corpus weight
What this shows « Alceste » 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 | Alceste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.sɛst\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #48,906 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alceste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Alceste (IPA \al.sɛst\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #48,906 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Fille de Pélias, roi d'Iolcos en Thessalie et d'Anaxibie, ramenée des Enfers après s’être empoisonnée.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alceste, with forms such as "acleste", "alcceste", and "alceset". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "alerte", "altesse", "atteste", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Alceste, spelled A-L-C-E-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Fille de Pélias, roi d'Iolcos en Thessalie et d'Anaxibie, ramenée des Enfers après s’être empoisonnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Alceste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me faut sauver cette femme qui vient de/ Mourir et ramener dans cette demeure Alceste,/ et rendre ce service à Admète.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- acleste
- alcceste
- alceset
- alcesste
- alcestte
- alcetse
- alcsete
- alecste
- allceste
- laceste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alceste - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).