alexandrine
\a.lɛk.sɑ̃.dʁin\
The verdict
“alexandrine” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #49,469. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #49,469
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de musique et de danse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alexandrine · alexandrine · French
alexandrine · rank #49,469 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #49,469
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH airsoft
Nearest frequency peer: airsoft (-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 « alexandrine »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agrégat
agrégat
50,535 corpus weight
- Ahn
Ahn
50,534 corpus weight
- airsoft
airsoft
50,533 corpus weight
- alexandrine
alexandrine
50,532 corpus weight
- Alkmaar
Alkmaar
50,531 corpus weight
- allégories
allégories
50,530 corpus weight
What this shows « alexandrine » 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 | alexandrine |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɛk.sɑ̃.dʁin\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #49,469 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alexandrine »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around alexandrine (IPA \a.lɛk.sɑ̃.dʁin\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #49,469 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for alexandrine, with forms such as "aelxandrine", "aleaxndrine", and "alexadnrine". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "Alexandre", "Alexandrie", "Alexandria", 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 any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is alexandrine, spelled A-L-E-X-A-N-D-R-I-N-E.
Definition
- 1Sorte de musique et de danse.
- 2Étoffe qui imitait celles fabriquées à Alexandrie.
- 3Variété de poire.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aelxandrine
- aleaxndrine
- alexadnrine
- alexanddrine
- alexandirne
- alexandrien
- alexandrinne
- alexandrnie
- alexandrrine
- alexanndrine
- alexanrdine
- alexnadrine
- alexxandrine
- allexandrine
- alxeandrine
- laexandrine
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alexandrine - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alexandrine", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).