alibis
\a.li.bi\
The verdict
“alibis” is uncommon French (frequency #72,898 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,898
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de alibi.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alibis · alibis · French
alibis · rank #72,898 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,898
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alimentations
Nearest frequency peer: alimentations (+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 « alibis »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Alary
Alary
27,106 corpus weight
- albon
albon
27,105 corpus weight
- alibis
alibis
27,103 corpus weight
- alimentatio…
alimentations
27,102 corpus weight
- aliénant
aliénant
27,101 corpus weight
- alluma
alluma
27,100 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alibis » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alibis |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.li.bi\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #72,898 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alibis » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alibis is uncommon French at frequency #72,898 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.li.bi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de alibi.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for alibis in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is alibis, spelled A-L-I-B-I-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de alibi.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alibis appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La difficulté que l’on éprouve à les capter et à les circonscrire tient au fait que ces signes sont moins émis que désémis, raturés dès leur esquisse, esquivés dès leur inscription, résultat brouillé de dénégations, subterfuges, confusions, manœuvres de déplacements, dépenses compensatoires, où le jeu de l’écriture et le jeu social (pour simplifier une op…
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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