Alexandrie
\a.lɛk.sɑ̃.dʁi\
The verdict
“Alexandrie” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,901. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,901
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville portuaire d’Égypte, projetée par Alexandre le Grand et développée par Ptolémée Iᵉʳ et ses successeurs.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alexandrie · Alexandrie · French
Alexandrie · rank #11,901 · 14 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,901
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH agréables
Nearest frequency peer: agréables (-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 « Alexandrie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- acceptez
acceptez
88,103 corpus weight
- agréables
agréables
88,101 corpus weight
- Alexandrie
Alexandrie
88,100 corpus weight
- alphabet
alphabet
88,099 corpus weight
- ambiguïté
ambiguïté
88,098 corpus weight
- ambulance
ambulance
88,097 corpus weight
What this shows « Alexandrie » 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 | Alexandrie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.lɛk.sɑ̃.dʁi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #11,901 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alexandrie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around Alexandrie (IPA \a.lɛk.sɑ̃.dʁi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #11,901 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ville portuaire d’Égypte, projetée par Alexandre le Grand et développée par Ptolémée Iᵉʳ et ses successeurs.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alexandrie, with forms such as "aelxandrie", "aleaxndrie", and "alexadnrie". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "alexandrine", "Alexandre", "Alexandra", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Alexandrie, spelled A-L-E-X-A-N-D-R-I-E.
Definition
- 1Ville portuaire d’Égypte, projetée par Alexandre le Grand et développée par Ptolémée Iᵉʳ et ses successeurs.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alexandrie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Gasbieha et sa mère passaient le printemps au Caire, l’été à Alexandrie, et suivaient fréquemment le Pacha à Hélouan, où il soignait ses rhumatismes.
Je pense aussi au mot « albâtre » — dont Cléopâtre a la pureté — puis j’évoque des images de portiques, de colonnes devant lesquelles se promènent les philosophes alexandrins — vieux pouilleux en guenilles — qui interfèrent dans ma mémoire avec ce que je connais de la moderne Alexandrie.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aelxandrie
- aleaxndrie
- alexadnrie
- alexanddrie
- alexandire
- alexandrei
- alexandrrie
- alexanndrie
- alexanrdie
- alexnadrie
- alexxandrie
- allexandrie
- alxeandrie
- laexandrie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alexandrie - 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 10 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).