alger
\al.ɣɛr\
The verdict
“alger” has 7 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,311. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,311
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 7
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Absolu, pur, parfait, complet, véritable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alger · alger · French
alger · rank #5,311 · 7 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,311
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 7 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH albums
Nearest frequency peer: albums (-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 « alger »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- élever
élever
94,693 corpus weight
- énormes
énormes
94,692 corpus weight
- albums
albums
94,691 corpus weight
- alger
alger
94,690 corpus weight
- aliments
aliments
94,688 corpus weight
- assassinat
assassinat
94,687 corpus weight
What this shows « alger » 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 | alger |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.ɣɛr\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,311 |
| Misspellings tracked | 7 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alger »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 7 spelling variants around alger (IPA \al.ɣɛr\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #5,311 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Absolu, pur, parfait, complet, véritable.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 7 likely wrong-spelling variants for alger, with forms such as "agler", "alegr", and "algerr". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "allé", "ange", "amer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alger, spelled A-L-G-E-R.
Definition
- 1Absolu, pur, parfait, complet, véritable.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- agler
- alegr
- algerr
- algger
- algre
- allger
- lager
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alger - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alger", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (7 here; floor ≥5).