aliyah
\a.li.ja\
The verdict
“aliyah” is uncommon French (frequency #88,300 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,300
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - variante de Alya
Corpus desk
Index FR-aliyah · aliyah · French
aliyah · rank #88,300 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,300
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alignait
Nearest frequency peer: alignait (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « aliyah »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ajoncs
ajoncs
11,705 corpus weight
- alignait
alignait
11,702 corpus weight
- aliyah
aliyah
11,701 corpus weight
- allitération
allitération
11,700 corpus weight
- allogènes
allogènes
11,699 corpus weight
- almohades
almohades
11,698 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aliyah » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aliyah |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.li.ja\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #88,300 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aliyah » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aliyah is uncommon French at frequency #88,300 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.li.ja\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "variante de Alya".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aliyah, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is aliyah, spelled A-L-I-Y-A-H.
Definition
- 1variante de Alya
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aliyah appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bomba n’était plus coiffeur, il était retraité et sa retraite était le motif majeur de sa « montée » en Israël, de son aliyah.
Le nombre de personnes ayant fait leur « aliyah » depuis la France sur toute l’année 2014 s’établira « sûrement autour de 5 500 », selon Ariel Kandel.
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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