alliance

/\a.ljɑ̃s\/ noun

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#2,211

in French word usage

Misspellings

9

tracked variants

Confusables

5

similar word pairs

alliance is aFrenchnoun. It means: Union entre personnes, y compris des organisations, qui est le résultat d’une entente ou d’un pacte. Pronounced \a.ljɑ̃s\. It ranks #2,211 in French word frequency. Often confused with alliant and Allianz.

Key facts for alliance
PropertyValue
Headwordalliance
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.ljɑ̃s\
Letters8
Frequency rank#2,211
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs5
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of alliance in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for alliance is 8 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ljɑ̃s\. Corpus data places it at rank #2,211 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for alliance, with forms such as "aliance", "alilance", and "allaince". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "alliant", "Allianz", "ambiance", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

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 alliance, spelled A-L-L-I-A-N-C-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Union entre personnes, y compris des organisations, qui est le résultat d’une entente ou d’un pacte.
  2. 2
    Union entre personnes, y compris des organisations, qui est le résultat d’une entente ou d’un pacte.
  3. 3
    Union entre Dieu et les hommes.
  4. 4
    Union ou confédération qui se fait entre deux ou plusieurs États pour leurs intérêts communs.
  5. 5
    Liens contractés par le mariage.
  6. 6
    Bague d’or ou d’argent, symbole de l’union contractée par le mariage.
  7. 7
    Affinité entre un époux et les parents de l’autre époux.
  8. 8
    Affinité spirituelle.
  9. 9
    Union et mélange de plusieurs choses différentes, opposées, disparates.
  10. 10
    Poucettes.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aliance,alilance,allaince,alliacne,alliancce,allianec,alliannce,allinace,laliance

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alliance

Misspelling Variants of "alliance"

aliance7alilance8allaince8alliacne8alliancce9allianec8alliannce9allinace8
Misspelling Variants of "alliance"

Frequency rank: #2,211 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alliance"?
"alliance" is spelled A-L-L-I-A-N-C-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ljɑ̃s\.
What does "alliance" mean?
As a noun, "alliance" means: Union entre personnes, y compris des organisations, qui est le résultat d’une entente ou d’un pacte.
What words are commonly confused with "alliance"?
"alliance" is commonly confused with "alliant", "Allianz", "ambiance". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "alliance"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alliance" is \a.ljɑ̃s\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alliance" come from?
"alliance" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.