alleud

\a.lø\

/\a.lø\/ noun

The verdict

“alleud” is uncommon French (frequency #72,056 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#72,056
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Terre possédée en pleine propriété par son exploitant ne dépendant pas d'un seigneur local.

Corpus desk

Index FR-alleud · alleud · French

alleud · rank #72,056 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #72,056
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH allocataire

Nearest frequency peer: allocataire (+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 « alleud »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alleud » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for alleud
PropertyValue
Headwordalleud
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.lø\
Letters6
Frequency rank#72,056
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « alleud » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).alleudtombe dans cette queue de rareté:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Voisins rares de la même bande: « allocataire » (#72,057), « alimentaient » (#72,054), « alchemist » (#72,053). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « alleud » est au #72,056. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

alleud is uncommon French at frequency #72,056 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lø\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Terre possédée en pleine propriété par son exploitant ne dépendant pas d'un seigneur local.".

The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alleud, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alleud, spelled A-L-L-E-U-D.

Definition

  1. 1
    Terre possédée en pleine propriété par son exploitant ne dépendant pas d'un seigneur local.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how alleud appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. La toponymie a conservé la trace des alleuds tant exceptionnelle était leur existence.
  2. C’est encore le cas de l’échevinage de la ville de Mons, constituant à l’origine un alleud du chapitre de Sainte- Waudru (9), qui y percevait tous les cens (10), notamment celui dû par le comte pour le château comtal (u), et y exerçait […]

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alleud"?
"alleud" is spelled A-L-L-E-U-D. The IPA pronunciation is \a.lø\.
What does "alleud" mean?
As a noun, "alleud" means: Terre possédée en pleine propriété par son exploitant ne dépendant pas d'un seigneur local.
How do you pronounce "alleud"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alleud" is \a.lø\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alleud" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alleud", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list