allé

\a.le\

/\a.le\/ verb

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The verdict

“allé” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #1,800) as a verb. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#1,800
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
4
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin singulier du participe passé du verbe aller.

Corpus desk

Index FR-alle · allé · French

allé · rank #1,800 · 4 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #1,800
  • LEN-MID 4 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-LOW 4 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH agriculture

Nearest frequency peer: agriculture (-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 « allé »

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

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « allé » 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).

allé vs âme
0% similar
allé vs axe
25% similar
allé vs are
25% similar

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

Key facts for allé
PropertyValue
Headwordallé
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\a.le\
Letters4
Frequency rank#1,800
Misspellings tracked4
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « allé »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).allése 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 « agriculture » (#1,799), « améliorer » (#1,801), « agent » (#1,798). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « allé » est au #1,800. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for allé is neighbouring look-alikes ("âme", "axe", …), not just typos; it is averb pronounced \a.le\. Frequency #1,800 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Masculin singulier du participe passé du verbe aller.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for allé, with forms such as "alle", "alé", and "alél". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "âme", "axe", "are", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.

This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is allé, spelled A-L-L-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Masculin singulier du participe passé du verbe aller.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

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

  1. Silène était allé rentrer la charrette, désarnacher les mulets et mettre chaque objet à sa place, sous un hangar.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alle
  • alé
  • alél
  • lalé

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

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

alle1alé1alél2lalé2
Edit distance from "allé"

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 "allé"?
"allé" is spelled A-L-L-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.le\.
What does "allé" mean?
As a verb, "allé" means: Masculin singulier du participe passé du verbe aller.
What words are commonly confused with "allé"?
"allé" is commonly confused with "âme", "axe", "are". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "allé"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "allé" is \a.le\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "allé" come from?
"allé" 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 "allé", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

auto#1,803vécu#1,794sois#1,787rare#1,785

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list