alentours
\a.lɑ̃.tuʁ\
The verdict
“alentours” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,420. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,420
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Lieux circonvoisins.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alentours · alentours · French
alentours · rank #5,420 · 13 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-COMMON #5,420
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adieu
Nearest frequency peer: adieu (-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 « alentours »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- étudiante
étudiante
94,584 corpus weight
- abbaye
abbaye
94,583 corpus weight
- adieu
adieu
94,582 corpus weight
- alentours
alentours
94,581 corpus weight
- analyser
analyser
94,579 corpus weight
- antenne
antenne
94,578 corpus weight
What this shows « alentours » 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 | alentours |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɑ̃.tuʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #5,420 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alentours »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around alentours (IPA \a.lɑ̃.tuʁ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,420 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for alentours, with forms such as "aelntours", "alenntours", and "alenoturs". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 1 confusable-pair relationship, "alentour", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is alentours, spelled A-L-E-N-T-O-U-R-S.
Definition
- 1Lieux circonvoisins.
- 2Entourage.
- 3Ce qui entoure une chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alentours appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De qui voulez-vous parler ? car il n’y a ni ours ni loups dans ces alentours, dit le chevalier.
En Charente-Maritime, deux spécialités locales subliment ce coquillage : la mouclade, avec une sauce au vin blanc, du pineau, du persil, de l’ail et, selon les recettes, du curry et du jaune d’œuf ; et l’éclade - ou églade -, où les moules sont disposées en spirale sur une planche en bois avant d’être recouvertes d’aiguilles de pin auxquelles on met le fe…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aelntours
- alenntours
- alenoturs
- alentorus
- alentourrs
- alentourss
- alentousr
- alenttours
- alentuors
- aletnours
- allentours
- alnetours
- laentours
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alentours - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).