alda
\al.ˈda\
The verdict
“alda” is uncommon French (frequency #90,386 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as an adverb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,386
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Écriture en caractères latins de алда.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alda |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \al.ˈda\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #90,386 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alda” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
alda is uncommon French at frequency #90,386 among 424,905 “A” headwords, classed as anadverb, transcribed \al.ˈda\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Écriture en caractères latins de алда.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alda, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is alda, spelled A-L-D-A.
Definition
- 1Écriture en caractères latins de алда.
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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Using “alda”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-L-D-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.