alcide
\al.sid\
The verdict
“alcide” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #47,717. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #47,717
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’Hercule dont on se sert pour désigner un homme très fort.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcide · alcide · French
alcide · rank #47,717 · 8 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,717
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH albâtre
Nearest frequency peer: albâtre (-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 « alcide »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agrégés
agrégés
52,288 corpus weight
- albâtre
albâtre
52,285 corpus weight
- alcide
alcide
52,284 corpus weight
- alloue
alloue
52,283 corpus weight
- amovibles
amovibles
52,281 corpus weight
- annihilation
annihilation
52,280 corpus weight
What this shows « alcide » 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 | alcide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.sid\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #47,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alcide »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around alcide (IPA \al.sid\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #47,717 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for alcide, with forms such as "aclide", "alccide", and "alcdie". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "alice", "allié", "avide", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is alcide, spelled A-L-C-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Nom d’Hercule dont on se sert pour désigner un homme très fort.
- 2Lutteur de foire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alcide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Socquard, alcide de naissance, pouvait porter onze cents pesant ; son coup de poing, appliqué dans le dos d’un homme, lui cassait net la colonne vertébrale ; il tordait une barre de fer, il arrêtait une voiture attelée d’un cheval.
En vertu du même privilège, ils ne se mêlent point avec le vulgaire, ils entrent à part, restent entre eux, s’emparent d’un intermède tout entier, et exécutent des groupes, des combats et des cabrioles pareils à ceux des alcides, moins la force, et à ceux des bédouins moins la légèreté.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aclide
- alccide
- alcdie
- alcidde
- alcied
- alicde
- allcide
- lacide
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alcide - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).