alimenter
\a.li.mɑ̃.te\
The verdict
“alimenter” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,648. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,648
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nourrir ; pourvoir des aliments nécessaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alimenter · alimenter · French
alimenter · rank #7,648 · 13 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,648
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Alberta
Nearest frequency peer: Alberta (-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 « alimenter »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- émergence
émergence
92,358 corpus weight
- aires
aires
92,355 corpus weight
- Alberta
Alberta
92,354 corpus weight
- alimenter
alimenter
92,353 corpus weight
- annoncée
annoncée
92,351 corpus weight
- appelez
appelez
92,349 corpus weight
What this shows « alimenter » 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 | alimenter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.li.mɑ̃.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #7,648 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alimenter »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around alimenter (IPA \a.li.mɑ̃.te\), averb. Corpus frequency is #7,648 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for alimenter, with forms such as "ailmenter", "aliemnter", and "alimenetr". 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 9 confusable-pair relationships, "aliments", "augmenter", "alimentés", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alimenter, spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nourrir ; pourvoir des aliments nécessaires.
- 2Pourvoir pour assurer le fonctionnement.
- 3Entretenir quelque chose.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alimenter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les provisions s’épuisèrent et l’équipage s’alimenta du produit de sa pêche.
nᵒ 3 - Après cette période, s'alimenter pendant une semaine à peu près de la manière suivante : a - le matin : une assiettée de potage Julienne ou un fruit avec une tasse de café ou de thé peu sucré.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailmenter
- aliemnter
- alimenetr
- alimennter
- alimenterr
- alimentre
- alimentter
- alimetner
- alimmenter
- alimneter
- allimenter
- almienter
- laimenter
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alimenter - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).