Alistair

name

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The verdict

“Alistair” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,724. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#42,724
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin.

Corpus desk

Index FR-alistair · Alistair · French

Alistair · rank #42,724 · 11 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #42,724
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH albanaise

Nearest frequency peer: albanaise (-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 « Alistair »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Alistair » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Alistair
PropertyValue
HeadwordAlistair
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters8
Frequency rank#42,724
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alistair »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.Alistairse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « albanaise » (#42,723), « allain » (#42,725), « Agüero » (#42,722). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Alistair » est au #42,724. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Alistair, aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #42,724 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alistair, with forms such as "ailstair", "alisatir", and "alisstair". 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. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Alistair, spelled A-L-I-S-T-A-I-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Prénom masculin.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Alistair appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. En plaçant son appareil sur un trépied, Alistair Todd, photographe, a pris ce cliché de lui-même à l’intérieur de l’un de ces tunnels situés sur les montagnes Cairngorms, dans les Highlands écossais.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • ailstair
  • alisatir
  • alisstair
  • alistairr
  • alistari
  • alistiar
  • alisttair
  • alitsair
  • allistair
  • alsitair
  • laistair

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alistair - 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.

ailstair2alisatir2alisstair1alistairr1alistari2alistiar2alisttair1alitsair2
Edit distance from "Alistair"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Alistair"?
"Alistair" is spelled A-L-I-S-T-A-I-R.
What does "Alistair" mean?
As a proper noun, "Alistair" means: Prénom masculin.
What are common misspellings of "Alistair"?
Common misspellings include "ailstair", "alisatir", "alisstair", "alistairr", "alistari". The correct spelling is "Alistair".
What language does "Alistair" come from?
"Alistair" is a French word. PlainSpell's reference spans five languages -- English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German -- with definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for each.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Alistair", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

acquitte#42,718accordes#42,715abstract#42,712assoiffé#42,747

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

évêchés11 variantsétendit11 variantsaveugler11 variantsvétuste11 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list