alcôves
\al.kov\
The verdict
“alcôves” is uncommon French (frequency #79,909 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,909
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de alcôve.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcoves · alcôves · French
alcôves · rank #79,909 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,909
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Alaoui
Nearest frequency peer: Alaoui (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « alcôves »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- AFs
AFs
20,095 corpus weight
- agroforeste…
agroforesterie
20,094 corpus weight
- Alaoui
Alaoui
20,093 corpus weight
- alcôves
alcôves
20,092 corpus weight
- Alesia
Alesia
20,091 corpus weight
- allouant
allouant
20,089 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alcôves » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alcôves |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.kov\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,909 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alcôves » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alcôves is uncommon French at frequency #79,909 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.kov\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de alcôve.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alcôves, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alcôves, spelled A-L-C-Ô-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de alcôve.
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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