allié

\a.lje\

/\a.lje\/ adj

The verdict

“allié” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #6,362. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#6,362
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
5
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui est uni par une entente, un pacte politique ou par des liens résultant du mariage.

Corpus desk

Index FR-allie · allié · French

allié · rank #6,362 · 5 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #6,362
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 5 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH affecté

Nearest frequency peer: affecté (-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 « allié »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « allié » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

allié vs amie
40% similar
allié vs Asie
20% similar
allié vs allô
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for allié
PropertyValue
Headwordallié
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\a.lje\
Letters5
Frequency rank#6,362
Misspellings tracked5
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allié »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.alliése place ici:

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

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « affecté » (#6,361), « annexe » (#6,363), « affection » (#6,360). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « allié » est au #6,362. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 5 spelling variants around allié (IPA \a.lje\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #6,362 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui est uni par une entente, un pacte politique ou par des liens résultant du mariage.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for allié, with forms such as "alilé", "alié", and "allie". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "amie", "Asie", "allô", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

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 allié, spelled A-L-L-I-É.

Definition

  1. 1
    Qui est uni par une entente, un pacte politique ou par des liens résultant du mariage.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. Des peuples alliés.
  2. Les nations alliées.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alilé
  • alié
  • allie
  • alléi
  • lalié

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allié - 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.

alilé2alié1allie1alléi2lalié2
Edit distance from "allié"

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 "allié"?
"allié" is spelled A-L-L-I-É. The IPA pronunciation is \a.lje\.
What does "allié" mean?
As an adjective, "allié" means: Qui est uni par une entente, un pacte politique ou par des liens résultant du mariage.
What words are commonly confused with "allié"?
"allié" is commonly confused with "amie", "Asie", "allô". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "allié"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "allié" is \a.lje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "allié" come from?
"allié" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list