Alfonso
\al.fɔ̃.dzɔ\
The verdict
“Alfonso” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #28,820. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #28,820
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin espagnol ou italien, équivalant à Alphonse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alfonso · Alfonso · French
Alfonso · rank #28,820 · 10 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #28,820
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alimentés
Nearest frequency peer: alimentés (+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 « Alfonso »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adoptif
adoptif
71,185 corpus weight
- Adélaïde
Adélaïde
71,184 corpus weight
- Agadir
Agadir
71,183 corpus weight
- Alfonso
Alfonso
71,181 corpus weight
- alimentés
alimentés
71,180 corpus weight
- Amboise
Amboise
71,178 corpus weight
What this shows « Alfonso » 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 | Alfonso |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.fɔ̃.dzɔ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #28,820 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alfonso »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around Alfonso (IPA \al.fɔ̃.dzɔ\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #28,820 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin espagnol ou italien, équivalant à Alphonse.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alfonso, with forms such as "aflonso", "alffonso", and "alfnoso". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "allons", "Alonso", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Alfonso, spelled A-L-F-O-N-S-O.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin espagnol ou italien, équivalant à Alphonse.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alfonso appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On cite au nombre des derniers artistes d’Urbino, Alfonso Patanazzi.
Un soir, l’évêque l’avait invité pour dîner, en présence de quelques vétérans des missions indigènes. Il y avait autour de la table Antonio Riva, qui arrivait du pueblo de Taos, Jean-Baptiste Olliergue, Alfonso Marina, Bernardin Ollas d’Isleta, le père Aristide, et trois autres dont Morange avait oublié le nom.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aflonso
- alffonso
- alfnoso
- alfonnso
- alfonos
- alfonsso
- alfosno
- allfonso
- alofnso
- lafonso
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alfonso - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).