alisier
\a.li.zje\
The verdict
“alisier” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Arbre de la famille des rosacées, anciennement du genre Sorbus actuellement reclassé dans les genres Aria, Chamaemespilus, Cormus, Sorbus, Torminalis, Borkhausenia, Hedlundia, Karpatiosorbus, Scand...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alisier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.li.zje\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “alisier” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
alisier is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.li.zje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
alisier doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is alisier, spelled A-L-I-S-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Arbre de la famille des rosacées, anciennement du genre Sorbus actuellement reclassé dans les genres Aria, Chamaemespilus, Cormus, Sorbus, Torminalis, Borkhausenia, Hedlundia, Karpatiosorbus, Scandosorbus et Majovskya à feuilles entières, plus ou moins dentées ou lobées, qui porte des alises et qui croît naturellement dans les bois. d’Europe du centre et de l’ouest.
- 2Synonyme de alisier torminal.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “alisier”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-L-I-S-I-E-R - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.li.zje\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.