allai
\a.le\
The verdict
“allai” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,638) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,638
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
- 2
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Première personne de l’indicatif passé simple du verbe aller.
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 | allai |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.le\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #38,638 |
| Misspellings tracked | 2 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “allai” sits in French frequency
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for allai is neighbouring look-alikes ("allé", "alma", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \a.le\. Frequency #38,638 among 424,905 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Première personne de l’indicatif passé simple du verbe aller.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 2 likely wrong-spelling variants for allai, including "alali" and "lalai". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "allé", "alma", "allô", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is allai, spelled A-L-L-A-I.
Definition
- 1Première personne de l’indicatif passé simple du verbe aller.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: alali,lalai
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allai - 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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Using “allai”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-L-L-A-I - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \a.le\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Don't mix it up with “allé” - see the side-by-side comparison. allai vs allé
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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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.