Allen
\ˈæl.ən\
The verdict
“Allen” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,958. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #8,958
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom masculin, variante de Alan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allen · Allen · French
Allen · rank #8,958 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #8,958
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aident
Nearest frequency peer: aident (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Allen »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- AG
AG
91,046 corpus weight
- Agnès
Agnès
91,045 corpus weight
- aident
aident
91,044 corpus weight
- Allen
Allen
91,043 corpus weight
- appuyé
appuyé
91,042 corpus weight
- assistante
assistante
91,041 corpus weight
What this shows « Allen » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Allen |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈæl.ən\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #8,958 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Allen »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around Allen (IPA \ˈæl.ən\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,958 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom masculin, variante de Alan.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for Allen, with forms such as "aleln", "alen", and "allenn". 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, "amen", "allô", "aven", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Allen, spelled A-L-L-E-N.
Definition
- 1Prénom masculin, variante de Alan.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aleln
- alen
- allenn
- allne
- lalen
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Allen - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).