aliments
\a.li.mɑ̃\
The verdict
“aliments” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #5,313. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #5,313
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 11
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Tout ce qu’il faut pour nourrir et entretenir une personne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aliments · aliments · French
aliments · rank #5,313 · 12 variants · 11 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #5,313
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 11 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assassinat
Nearest frequency peer: assassinat (+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 « aliments »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
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94,690 corpus weight
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aliments
94,688 corpus weight
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94,687 corpus weight
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94,685 corpus weight
What this shows « aliments » 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 | aliments |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.li.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #5,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 11 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aliments »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around aliments (IPA \a.li.mɑ̃\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #5,313 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Tout ce qu’il faut pour nourrir et entretenir une personne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for aliments, with forms such as "ailments", "aliemnts", and "alimennts". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 11 confusable-pair relationships, "animent", "aiment", "aliens", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is aliments, spelled A-L-I-M-E-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Tout ce qu’il faut pour nourrir et entretenir une personne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aliments appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Tant que l'homme ne fut pas capable de produire plus que le strict nécessaire à sa survivance, les vainqueurs ne pouvaient que mettre en fuite et massacrer les vaincus, et s'emparer des aliments récoltés.
Il admet l’irrépétibilité de la constitution de dot, même si celle-ci, à la différence des aliments que nous venons d'évoquer, est intervenue par erreur, mais une erreur sur le seul caractère civilement obligatoire de la prestation.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ailments
- aliemnts
- alimennts
- alimenst
- alimentss
- alimentts
- alimetns
- alimments
- alimnets
- alliments
- almients
- laiments
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aliments - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).