aleph
\a.lɛf\
The verdict
“aleph” is uncommon French (frequency #83,569 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,569
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante de alef, א, première lettre de l’alphabet hébreu.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aleph · aleph · French
aleph · rank #83,569 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,569
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alezan
Nearest frequency peer: alezan (+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 « aleph »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aimantée
aimantée
16,436 corpus weight
- ako
ako
16,435 corpus weight
- aleph
aleph
16,432 corpus weight
- alezan
alezan
16,431 corpus weight
- alleu
alleu
16,430 corpus weight
- allumeur
allumeur
16,429 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aleph » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aleph |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɛf\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,569 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aleph » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aleph is uncommon French at frequency #83,569 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aleph, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aleph, spelled A-L-E-P-H.
Definition
- 1Variante de alef, א, première lettre de l’alphabet hébreu.
- 2Cardinal d’un ensemble infini bien ordonné, noté par ℵ avec un indice.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aleph appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il me semble que Lacan a d’abord simplement souligné « a », puis a placé א au-dessous de ce petit trait comme pour donner, avec la lettre aleph, une indication essentielle sur l’objet petit a.
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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