Aldi
\al.di\
The verdict
“Aldi” is uncommon French (frequency #52,470 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,470
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Chaîne de supermarchés hard-discount originellement domiciliée en Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aldi · Aldi · French
Aldi · rank #52,470 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,470
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aiglons
Nearest frequency peer: aiglons (-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 « Aldi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agronomiques
agronomiques
47,534 corpus weight
- aiderons
aiderons
47,533 corpus weight
- aiglons
aiglons
47,532 corpus weight
- Aldi
Aldi
47,531 corpus weight
- alertent
alertent
47,530 corpus weight
- algo
algo
47,529 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aldi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aldi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.di\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #52,470 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aldi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Aldi is uncommon French at frequency #52,470 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \al.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Chaîne de supermarchés hard-discount originellement domiciliée en Allemagne.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Aldi, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Aldi, spelled A-L-D-I.
Definition
- 1Chaîne de supermarchés hard-discount originellement domiciliée en Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aldi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les magasins Aldi ne laissent aucun espace pour la tentation.
Tout fut entrepris pour attirer les clients Aldi dans les magasins GB.
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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