alibi
\a.li.bi\
The verdict
“alibi” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,763. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,763
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Présence d’une personne dans un lieu autre que celui où a été commis le crime ou le délit dont on l’accuse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alibi · alibi · French
alibi · rank #22,763 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,763
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allumettes
Nearest frequency peer: allumettes (+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 « alibi »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aimerions
aimerions
77,242 corpus weight
- ajouterai
ajouterai
77,240 corpus weight
- alibi
alibi
77,238 corpus weight
- allumettes
allumettes
77,237 corpus weight
- allusions
allusions
77,236 corpus weight
- amor
amor
77,235 corpus weight
What this shows « alibi » 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 | alibi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.li.bi\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #22,763 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alibi »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around alibi (IPA \a.li.bi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #22,763 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for alibi, with forms such as "ailbi", "albii", and "alibbi". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "Alix", "alim", "alice", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is alibi, spelled A-L-I-B-I.
Definition
- 1Présence d’une personne dans un lieu autre que celui où a été commis le crime ou le délit dont on l’accuse.
- 2Argument invoqué pour échapper à une accusation, même non juridique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alibi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les autres figurants et leur chef ont déclaré qu'il était resté en scène jusqu'à onze heures et qu'au moment où il est parti, la maison brûlait déjà. Il n'y eut jamais d’alibi mieux établi...
Si on veut faire accuser quelquʼun, on sʼarrange pour quʼil nʼait pas dʼalibi.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailbi
- albii
- alibbi
- aliib
- allibi
- laibi
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alibi - 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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).