allitération
\a.li.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“allitération” is uncommon French (frequency #88,301 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,301
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure de style qui consiste en la répétition d'un son consonantique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alliteration · allitération · French
allitération · rank #88,301 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,301
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-6 6 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aliyah
Nearest frequency peer: aliyah (-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 « allitération »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alignait
alignait
11,702 corpus weight
- aliyah
aliyah
11,701 corpus weight
- allitération
allitération
11,700 corpus weight
- allogènes
allogènes
11,699 corpus weight
- almohades
almohades
11,698 corpus weight
- almoravides
almoravides
11,697 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allitération » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allitération |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.li.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #88,301 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allitération » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allitération is uncommon French at frequency #88,301 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.li.te.ʁa.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Figure de style qui consiste en la répétition d'un son consonantique.".
allitération has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is allitération, spelled A-L-L-I-T-É-R-A-T-I-O-N.
Definition
- 1Figure de style qui consiste en la répétition d'un son consonantique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allitération appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’allitération, qui est originellement un phénomène poétique, se retrouve parfois en prose littéraire.
Voici un exemple d'allitération : Pour qui sont ces serpents qui sifflent sur vos têtes ?
Synonyms
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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