allai

\a.le\

/\a.le\/ verb

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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
6,727
“A” headwords
2
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne de l’indicatif passé simple du verbe aller.

Corpus desk

Index FR-allai · allai · French

allai · rank #38,638 · 2 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #38,638
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 2 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH alicante

Nearest frequency peer: alicante (-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.

Voisins de fréquence du confusable « allai »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « allai » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

allai vs allé
60% similar
allai vs alma
60% similar
allai vs allô
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for allai
PropertyValue
Headwordallai
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.le\
Letters5
Frequency rank#38,638
Misspellings tracked2
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « allai »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).allaise place ici:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « alicante » (#38,637), « allumette » (#38,639), « algorithmique » (#38,636). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « allai » est au #38,638. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

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 6,727 “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

  1. 1
    Première personne de l’indicatif passé simple du verbe aller.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Quand j’allai lui présenter mes respects, je trouvai la porte ouverte et dépourvue du factionnaire de rigueur, et pour cause ; l’armée permanente de l’Islande se réduit à deux policemen, dont les gourdins suffisent à maintenir l’ordre le plus parfait sur toute l’étendue du territoire.

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.

alali2lalai2
Edit distance from "allai"

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 "allai"?
"allai" is spelled A-L-L-A-I. The IPA pronunciation is \a.le\.
What does "allai" mean?
As a verb, "allai" means: Première personne de l’indicatif passé simple du verbe aller.
What words are commonly confused with "allai"?
"allai" is commonly confused with "allé", "alma", "allô". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "allai"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "allai" is \a.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "allai" come from?
"allai" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

angot#38,646Assas#38,653auray#38,659éleva#38,614

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list