aller simple
\a.le sɛ̃pl\
The verdict
“aller simple” is outside the top-ranked French vocabulary, used as a noun - the kind of word writers most often double-check.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Trajet dans un sens, sans retour.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aller simple |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.le sɛ̃pl\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “aller simple” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aller simple is 12 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.le sɛ̃pl\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for aller simple in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is aller simple, spelled A-L-L-E-R- -S-I-M-P-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Trajet dans un sens, sans retour.
- 2Ticket ou titre de transport, pour ce trajet.
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- The one correct French spelling is A-L-L-E-R- -S-I-M-P-L-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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