Allium
The verdict
“Allium” is uncommon French (frequency #99,846 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,846
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de plante de la famille des Amaryllidacées dont le type est l’ail. Ce genre compte environ 700 espèces dont certaines sont cultivées en tant que plantes alimentaires ou d’ornement.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allium · Allium · French
Allium · rank #99,846 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,846
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alleux
Nearest frequency peer: alleux (-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 « Allium »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aldébaran
Aldébaran
158 corpus weight
- alleux
alleux
156 corpus weight
- Allium
Allium
155 corpus weight
- Alpi
Alpi
154 corpus weight
- altière
altière
153 corpus weight
- Alys
Alys
152 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Allium » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Allium |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #99,846 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Allium » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Allium is uncommon French at frequency #99,846 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Genre de plante de la famille des Amaryllidacées dont le type est l’ail. Ce genre compte environ 700 espèces dont certaines sont cultivées en tant que plantes alimentaires ou d’ornement.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Allium in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Allium, spelled A-L-L-I-U-M.
Definition
- 1Genre de plante de la famille des Amaryllidacées dont le type est l’ail. Ce genre compte environ 700 espèces dont certaines sont cultivées en tant que plantes alimentaires ou d’ornement.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Allium appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On évitera de préférence en culture maraîchère les nématicides contenant du brome, comme le dibromoéthane ou le bromure de méthyle ; en effet : les Allium sont très sensibles aux résidus de brome […].
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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