allophones
\a.lɔ.fɔn\
The verdict
“allophones” is uncommon French (frequency #53,753 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,753
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de allophone.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allophones · allophones · French
allophones · rank #53,753 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,753
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allegro
Nearest frequency peer: allegro (-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 « allophones »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alessandrini
alessandrini
46,251 corpus weight
- alimentait
alimentait
46,250 corpus weight
- allegro
allegro
46,249 corpus weight
- allophones
allophones
46,248 corpus weight
- allégués
allégués
46,247 corpus weight
- altérés
altérés
46,246 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « allophones » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allophones |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lɔ.fɔn\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #53,753 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « allophones » en français
Rare enough to double-check
allophones is uncommon French at frequency #53,753 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lɔ.fɔn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de allophone.".
No misspelling variants are generated for allophones in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is allophones, spelled A-L-L-O-P-H-O-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de allophone.
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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