Allium
The verdict
“Allium” is uncommon French (frequency #99,846 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,846
- frequency rank, French
- 424,905
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.
| 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) |
Where “Allium” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Allium is uncommon French at frequency #99,846 among 424,905 “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.
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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Using “Allium”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-L-L-I-U-M - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.