alezan
\al.zɑ̃\
The verdict
“alezan” is uncommon French (frequency #83,570 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,570
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dont la robe est d’une couleur fauve tirant sur le roux (au sujet de la robe des chevaux). #A76726
Corpus desk
Index FR-alezan · alezan · French
alezan · rank #83,570 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,570
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aleph
Nearest frequency peer: aleph (-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 « alezan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- Allyson
Allyson
16,428 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alezan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alezan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.zɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,570 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alezan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alezan is uncommon French at frequency #83,570 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \al.zɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dont la robe est d’une couleur fauve tirant sur le roux (au sujet de la robe des chevaux). #A76726".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alezan, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alezan, spelled A-L-E-Z-A-N.
Definition
- 1Dont la robe est d’une couleur fauve tirant sur le roux (au sujet de la robe des chevaux). #A76726
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alezan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Eh bien ! imaginez-vous que ce charmant cheval alezan et ce joli petit jockey à casaque rose m’avaient, à la première vue, inspiré une si vive sympathie
Tchitchikov ignorait aussi bien Khvostyriov que la jument alezane.
This word in other languages
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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