alentour
\a.lɑ̃.tuʁ\
The verdict
“alentour” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,863. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,863
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Aux environs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alentour · alentour · French
alentour · rank #17,863 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #17,863
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aiderait
Nearest frequency peer: aiderait (-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 « alentour »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agis
agis
82,141 corpus weight
- agressifs
agressifs
82,140 corpus weight
- aiderait
aiderait
82,139 corpus weight
- alentour
alentour
82,138 corpus weight
- alliées
alliées
82,137 corpus weight
- alléger
alléger
82,136 corpus weight
What this shows « alentour » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alentour |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adverb |
| IPA | \a.lɑ̃.tuʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,863 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alentour »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around alentour (IPA \a.lɑ̃.tuʁ\), anadverb. Corpus frequency is #17,863 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Aux environs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for alentour, with forms such as "aelntour", "alenntour", and "alenotur". 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. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "alentours", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alentour, spelled A-L-E-N-T-O-U-R.
Definition
- 1Aux environs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alentour appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le fanon musculeux ballottait de droite et de gauche […] tandis que la queue vigilante voltigeait sans relâche alentour de leurs cuisses et de leurs flancs, chassant les taons assoiffés de sang et les mouches importunes.
Les fermes elles-mêmes dorment profondément. Seuls, les chats rôdent et les poules gloussent alentour.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aelntour
- alenntour
- alenotur
- alentoru
- alentourr
- alenttour
- alentuor
- aletnour
- allentour
- alnetour
- laentour
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alentour - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).