allégir
\a.le.ʒiʁ\
The verdict
“allégir” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Diminuer dans toutes les dimensions le volume d'un corps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allegir · allégir · French
allégir · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allégir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.le.ʒiʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “allégir” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
allégir is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.le.ʒiʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for allégir, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is allégir, spelled A-L-L-É-G-I-R.
Definition
- 1Diminuer dans toutes les dimensions le volume d'un corps.
- 2Alléger sans diminution de substance. L'allégie de l'être — (Le dictionnaire Martin Heidegger, article Existence p 467, Cerf, 2013)
- 3Rendre un cheval plus léger à l’avant ou à l’arrière grâce la position du corps du cavalier.
- 4Variante de alléger.
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