allergie
\a.lɛʁ.ʒi\
The verdict
“allergie” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #18,388. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #18,388
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Réaction anormale, inadaptée, exagérée ou même excessive du système immunitaire de l’organisme, consécutive à un contact avec une substance étrangère à l’organisme (l'allergène) qui provoque une ir...
Corpus desk
Index FR-allergie · allergie · French
allergie · rank #18,388 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,388
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allergies
Nearest frequency peer: allergies (+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 « allergie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- ajoutées
ajoutées
81,616 corpus weight
- ajustements
ajustements
81,615 corpus weight
- allergie
allergie
81,613 corpus weight
- allergies
allergies
81,612 corpus weight
- allumée
allumée
81,611 corpus weight
- amnesty
amnesty
81,610 corpus weight
What this shows « allergie » 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 | allergie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɛʁ.ʒi\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #18,388 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allergie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around allergie (IPA \a.lɛʁ.ʒi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #18,388 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for allergie, with forms such as "alelrgie", "alergie", and "allegrie". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "allergies", "allergique", "Algérie", 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 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 allergie, spelled A-L-L-E-R-G-I-E.
Definition
- 1Réaction anormale, inadaptée, exagérée ou même excessive du système immunitaire de l’organisme, consécutive à un contact avec une substance étrangère à l’organisme (l'allergène) qui provoque une irritation.
- 2Forte aversion envers quelque chose ou quelqu'un.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how allergie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand on diagnostique une allergie médicamenteuse, il faut informer le patient qu’il est hypersensible au médicament qui a causé l’allergie et lui recommander de ne plus le prendre.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alelrgie
- alergie
- allegrie
- allergei
- allerggie
- allerige
- allerrgie
- allregie
- lalergie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allergie - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "allergie", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).