allongement
Letters
11 characters
Frequency Rank
#18,645
in French word usage
Misspellings
15
tracked variants
Confusables
2
similar word pairs
allongement is aFrenchnoun. It means: Action d’allonger, ou résultat de cette action (augmentation de la longueur, rallongement) Pronounced \a.lɔ̃ʒ.mɑ̃\. Often confused with allongent and allégement.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allongement |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɔ̃ʒ.mɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #18,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for allongement is 11 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.lɔ̃ʒ.mɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #18,645 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 15 documented wrong-spelling variants for allongement, with forms such as "allnogement", "allognement", and "allonegment". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "allongent", "allégement", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is allongement, spelled A-L-L-O-N-G-E-M-E-N-T, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Action d’allonger, ou résultat de cette action (augmentation de la longueur, rallongement)
- 2Allongement relatif, augmentation relative de la longueur d’un matériau.
- 3Caractéristique géométrique de la voilure d′un aéronef. L′allongement est égal au ratio de l′envergure au carré sur la surface portante de l'aile.
- 4Sensation visuelle que l'objet est plus long ou filiforme qu'il ne l'est.
- 5Lenteurs affectées et recherchées que certaines gens mettent dans les affaires.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: allnogement,allognement,allonegment,allongeemnt,allongemennt,allongementt,allongemetn,allongemment,allongemnet,allonggement,allongmeent,allonngement,alolngement,alongement,lalongement
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for allongement
Misspelling Variants of "allongement"
Frequency rank: #18,645 in French
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