aliment
\a.li.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“aliment” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,727. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,727
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 10
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ce qui se mange et sert à entretenir la vie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aliment · aliment · French
aliment · rank #13,727 · 10 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,727
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 10 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alien
Nearest frequency peer: alien (-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 « aliment »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- affronte
affronte
86,277 corpus weight
- Africa
Africa
86,276 corpus weight
- alien
alien
86,275 corpus weight
- aliment
aliment
86,274 corpus weight
- allongée
allongée
86,273 corpus weight
- Amanda
Amanda
86,272 corpus weight
What this shows « aliment » 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 | aliment |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.li.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #13,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aliment »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 10 spelling variants around aliment (IPA \a.li.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,727 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for aliment, with forms such as "ailment", "aliemnt", and "alimennt". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "animent", "allient", "animant", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aliment, spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Ce qui se mange et sert à entretenir la vie.
- 2Action de nourrir.
- 3Ce qui entretient quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aliment appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les pois mûrs & secs sont un des légumes qui fournissent la purée la plus délicate, & l’aliment le moins grossier.
Le fruit nommé cul-de-chien, nèfle d’Allemagne, est astringent avant sa maturité ; lorsqu’il a molli sur la paille c’est un aliment fort agréable ; […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailment
- aliemnt
- alimennt
- alimentt
- alimetn
- alimment
- alimnet
- alliment
- almient
- laiment
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aliment - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).