alert
\aˈlɛʁt\
The verdict
“alert” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,128. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,128
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alerte
Corpus desk
Index FR-alert · alert · French
alert · rank #38,128 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,128
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alcoolisée
Nearest frequency peer: alcoolisée (-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 « alert »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agar
agar
61,876 corpus weight
- ailé
ailé
61,875 corpus weight
- alcoolisée
alcoolisée
61,874 corpus weight
- alert
alert
61,873 corpus weight
- algébrique
algébrique
61,872 corpus weight
- Alligator
Alligator
61,871 corpus weight
What this shows « alert » 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 | alert |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aˈlɛʁt\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,128 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alert »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around alert (IPA \aˈlɛʁt\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #38,128 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alerte".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for alert, with forms such as "aelrt", "alerrt", and "alertt". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "Art", "alt", "Alex", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alert, spelled A-L-E-R-T.
Definition
- 1Alerte
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alert appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sein alerter Mitschüler erfaßte die Situation sogleich und er bot seine Hilfe an.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aelrt
- alerrt
- alertt
- allert
- alret
- laert
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alert - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).