Alençon
\a.lɑ̃.sɔ̃\
The verdict
“Alençon” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,153. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,153
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de l’Orne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alencon · Alençon · French
Alençon · rank #22,153 · 10 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,153
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adaptent
Nearest frequency peer: adaptent (-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 « Alençon »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- accommoder
accommoder
77,851 corpus weight
- accordéon
accordéon
77,850 corpus weight
- adaptent
adaptent
77,849 corpus weight
- Alençon
Alençon
77,848 corpus weight
- alternant
alternant
77,846 corpus weight
- alternative…
alternativement
77,845 corpus weight
What this shows « Alençon » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alençon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.lɑ̃.sɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,153 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alençon »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Alençon (IPA \a.lɑ̃.sɔ̃\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #22,153 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de l’Orne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alençon, with forms such as "aelnçon", "alencon", and "alennçon". 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. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Alençon, spelled A-L-E-N-Ç-O-N.
Definition
- 1Commune, ville et chef-lieu de département français, situé dans le département de l’Orne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alençon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Mais Alençon n’est pas une ville qui affriande l’étranger, elle n’est sur le chemin d’aucune capitale, elle n’a pas de hasards.
Une seule dérogation à l’autarcie : le marché d’Alençon chaque semaine, dans la Matis noire, pour acheter des graines, des outils, quelquefois de la viande rouge et toujours du jambon blanc qu’Anna, coiffée d’un chapeau-cloche, marchandait systématiquement dans son impayable franco-yiddish, expliquant, pour obtenir les meilleurs prix, que c’était « pour u…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aelnçon
- alencon
- alennçon
- alenoçn
- alençno
- alençonn
- aleçnon
- allençon
- alneçon
- laençon
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alençon - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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