alek
\aˈlɛk\
The verdict
“alek” is uncommon French (frequency #80,841 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,841
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zone radiale entre A et L (roue matricielle).
Corpus desk
Index FR-alek · alek · French
alek · rank #80,841 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,841
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alarm
Nearest frequency peer: alarm (-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 « alek »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agressant
agressant
19,165 corpus weight
- akademie
akademie
19,164 corpus weight
- akan
akan
19,163 corpus weight
- alarm
alarm
19,161 corpus weight
- alek
alek
19,160 corpus weight
- allonges
allonges
19,156 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alek » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alek |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \aˈlɛk\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #80,841 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alek » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alek is uncommon French at frequency #80,841 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \aˈlɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Zone radiale entre A et L (roue matricielle).".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alek, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alek, spelled A-L-E-K.
Definition
- 1Zone radiale entre A et L (roue matricielle).
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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