alliances
\a.ljɑ̃s\
The verdict
“alliances” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,594. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,594
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de alliance.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alliances · alliances · French
alliances · rank #9,594 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,594
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Airbus
Nearest frequency peer: Airbus (-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 « alliances »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agissent
agissent
90,411 corpus weight
- agressif
agressif
90,410 corpus weight
- aies
aies
90,409 corpus weight
- Airbus
Airbus
90,408 corpus weight
- alliances
alliances
90,407 corpus weight
- anecdotes
anecdotes
90,404 corpus weight
What this shows « alliances » 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 | alliances |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ljɑ̃s\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #9,594 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alliances »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around alliances (IPA \a.ljɑ̃s\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,594 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de alliance.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for alliances, with forms such as "aliances", "alilances", and "allainces". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 3 confusable-pair relationships, "ambiances", "alliance", "alliages", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 alliances, spelled A-L-L-I-A-N-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de alliance.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alliances appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Rogron apprenait toujours ainsi quelque chose sur le vieux Provins, sur les alliances des familles ou de vieilles nouvelles politiques qu’il renarrait à sa sœur.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aliances
- alilances
- allainces
- alliacnes
- alliancces
- alliancess
- alliancse
- allianecs
- alliannces
- allinaces
- laliances
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alliances - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
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