alice
\a.lis\
The verdict
“alice” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,005. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,005
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Exclamation de surprise.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alice · alice · French
alice · rank #5,005 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,005
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH œufs
Nearest frequency peer: œufs (-2 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 « alice »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- universelle
universelle
95,000 corpus weight
- étend
étend
94,999 corpus weight
- œufs
œufs
94,998 corpus weight
- alice
alice
94,996 corpus weight
- asile
asile
94,994 corpus weight
- assaut
assaut
94,993 corpus weight
What this shows « alice » 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 | alice |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| IPA | \a.lis\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,005 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alice »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around alice (IPA \a.lis\), aninterjection. Corpus frequency is #5,005 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Exclamation de surprise.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for alice, with forms such as "ailce", "alcie", and "alicce". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "amie", "allé", "Asie", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alice, spelled A-L-I-C-E.
Definition
- 1Exclamation de surprise.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailce
- alcie
- alicce
- aliec
- allice
- laice
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alice - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "alice", 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 (6 here; floor ≥5).