alchimiste
\al.ʃi.mist\
The verdict
“alchimiste” has 15 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #34,398. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #34,398
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 15
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui qui s’occupait d’alchimie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alchimiste · alchimiste · French
alchimiste · rank #34,398 · 15 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #34,398
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 15 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alia
Nearest frequency peer: alia (+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 « alchimiste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- affiliée
affiliée
65,606 corpus weight
- agente
agente
65,605 corpus weight
- alchimiste
alchimiste
65,603 corpus weight
- alia
alia
65,602 corpus weight
- allongées
allongées
65,601 corpus weight
- aléatoireme…
aléatoirement
65,600 corpus weight
What this shows « alchimiste » 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 | alchimiste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ʃi.mist\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #34,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alchimiste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 15 spelling variants around alchimiste (IPA \al.ʃi.mist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #34,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui qui s’occupait d’alchimie.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for alchimiste, with forms such as "aclhimiste", "alcchimiste", and "alchhimiste". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "archiviste", "alchimie", 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 its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alchimiste, spelled A-L-C-H-I-M-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui qui s’occupait d’alchimie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alchimiste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] ; mais sache, […], que ton père est déjà entre les mains d’un puissant alchimiste qui sait convertir en or et en argent jusqu’aux barres rouillées d’une grille de cachot.
Pendant longtemps, on n’employa qu’en médecine ce liquide qu'on croyait doué de propriétés merveilleuses et qu’on regardait comme une panacée universelle ; c'est ce qui justifie le nom d’aqua vitæ ou eau-de-vie qui lui fut donné par les alchimistes.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclhimiste
- alcchimiste
- alchhimiste
- alchiimste
- alchimiset
- alchimisste
- alchimistte
- alchimitse
- alchimmiste
- alchimsite
- alchmiiste
- alcihmiste
- alhcimiste
- allchimiste
- lachimiste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alchimiste - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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