alleu
\a.lø\
The verdict
“alleu” is uncommon French (frequency #83,571 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #83,571
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fonds de terre, soit noble, soit roturier, exempt de tous les droits et devoirs féodaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alleu · alleu · French
alleu · rank #83,571 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #83,571
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alezan
Nearest frequency peer: alezan (-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 « alleu »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aleph
aleph
16,432 corpus weight
- alezan
alezan
16,431 corpus weight
- alleu
alleu
16,430 corpus weight
- allumeur
allumeur
16,429 corpus weight
- Allyson
Allyson
16,428 corpus weight
- allèle
allèle
16,427 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alleu » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alleu |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lø\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #83,571 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alleu » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alleu is uncommon French at frequency #83,571 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fonds de terre, soit noble, soit roturier, exempt de tous les droits et devoirs féodaux.".
alleu has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alleu, spelled A-L-L-E-U.
Definition
- 1Fonds de terre, soit noble, soit roturier, exempt de tous les droits et devoirs féodaux.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alleu appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Vous savez que rien n’était plus commun, dans les anciens temps, que la conversion des alleux en fiefs.
Antonyms
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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