alg
\alg\
The verdict
“alg” is uncommon French (frequency #62,032 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,032
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Algue.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alg · alg · French
alg · rank #62,032 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,032
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Alexandrin
Nearest frequency peer: Alexandrin (-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 « alg »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aixois
Aixois
37,973 corpus weight
- ajustent
ajustent
37,972 corpus weight
- alaouites
alaouites
37,971 corpus weight
- Alexandrin
Alexandrin
37,970 corpus weight
- alg
alg
37,969 corpus weight
- aloès
aloès
37,967 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alg » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alg |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \alg\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #62,032 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alg » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alg is uncommon French at frequency #62,032 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \alg\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Algue.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for alg in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists 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 alg, spelled A-L-G.
Definition
- 1Algue.
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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