allegro
\a.le.ɡʁo\
The verdict
“allegro” is uncommon French (frequency #53,752 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,752
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante, dans l’orthographe traditionnelle, de allégro.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allegro · allegro · French
allegro · rank #53,752 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,752
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alimentait
Nearest frequency peer: alimentait (-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 « allegro »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alde
alde
46,252 corpus weight
- alessandrini
alessandrini
46,251 corpus weight
- alimentait
alimentait
46,250 corpus weight
- allegro
allegro
46,249 corpus weight
- allophones
allophones
46,248 corpus weight
- allégués
allégués
46,247 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allegro » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allegro |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.le.ɡʁo\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #53,752 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allegro » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allegro is uncommon French at frequency #53,752 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.le.ɡʁo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante, dans l’orthographe traditionnelle, de allégro.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for allegro in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is allegro, spelled A-L-L-E-G-R-O.
Definition
- 1Variante, dans l’orthographe traditionnelle, de allégro.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allegro appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Jeanne le plaint, fléchit, bémolise, repart dans le majeur, l’allegro vivace, le finale où toutes les lances fleurissent, où les ailes poussent à chacun et font de pauvres bougres l’assemblée des anges.
Jadis, quand on avait écrit un allegro pour instruments à cordes, on le faisait paisiblement entendre à la première occasion et on se mettait à élaborer un petit morceau de piano orné d’un titre généralement exquis.
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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