alerter
\a.lɛʁ.te\
The verdict
“alerter” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,333. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,333
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avertir d’un danger en donnant l’alerte.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alerter · alerter · French
alerter · rank #17,333 · 10 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,333
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affranchir
Nearest frequency peer: affranchir (-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 « alerter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adoration
adoration
82,672 corpus weight
- ADP
ADP
82,671 corpus weight
- affranchir
affranchir
82,669 corpus weight
- alerter
alerter
82,668 corpus weight
- ambiant
ambiant
82,667 corpus weight
- aménagée
aménagée
82,665 corpus weight
What this shows « alerter » 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 | alerter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.lɛʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,333 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alerter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around alerter (IPA \a.lɛʁ.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,333 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for alerter, with forms such as "aelrter", "aleretr", and "alerrter". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "Alter", "avérer", "avertir", and more, 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 alerter, spelled A-L-E-R-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Avertir d’un danger en donnant l’alerte.
- 2Mettre en éveil.
- 3Signaler un commentaire hors charte au modérateur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alerter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
De même que l'inventeur du grand remplacement désire être grand-remplacé – qu'on n'en parle plus –, les ombrageux qui alertent jour et nuit contre un projet secret de gouvernement mondial espèrent son aboutissement.
Le bruit, les allées et venues des gens m'alertèrent. J'accourus avec un funèbre pressentiment, sans toutefois penser à un malheur aussi terrible.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aelrter
- aleretr
- alerrter
- alerterr
- alertre
- alertter
- aletrer
- allerter
- alreter
- laerter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alerter - 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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).