allèle
\a.lɛl\
The verdict
“allèle” is uncommon French (frequency #83,574 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,574
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des formes alternatives d’un même gène, occupant un locus, une place donnée sur un chromosome.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allele · allèle · French
allèle · rank #83,574 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,574
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Allyson
Nearest frequency peer: Allyson (-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 « allèle »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alleu
alleu
16,430 corpus weight
- allumeur
allumeur
16,429 corpus weight
- Allyson
Allyson
16,428 corpus weight
- allèle
allèle
16,427 corpus weight
- alourdissem…
alourdissement
16,426 corpus weight
- Altrad
Altrad
16,425 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allèle » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allèle |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɛl\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #83,574 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allèle » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allèle is uncommon French at frequency #83,574 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lɛl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Une des formes alternatives d’un même gène, occupant un locus, une place donnée sur un chromosome.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for allèle in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is allèle, spelled A-L-L-È-L-E.
Definition
- 1Une des formes alternatives d’un même gène, occupant un locus, une place donnée sur un chromosome.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allèle appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il peut exister plusieurs allèles d’un gène dans une population (on parle alors d’allèles multiples), mais chaque individu ne peut en détenir que deux : un sur chaque chromosome d’une paire de chromosomes homologues, au même locus.
Nous pouvons également distinguer des allèles ultrarapides, qui augmentent l’activité des enzymes.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
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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