Allos
\al.los\
The verdict
“Allos” is uncommon French (frequency #67,266 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #67,266
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allos · Allos · French
Allos · rank #67,266 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #67,266
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allocutions
Nearest frequency peer: allocutions (-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 « Allos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- allocutions
allocutions
32,736 corpus weight
- Allos
Allos
32,735 corpus weight
- alternants
alternants
32,734 corpus weight
- amortis
amortis
32,733 corpus weight
- Anand
Anand
32,732 corpus weight
- anaphylacti…
anaphylactique
32,731 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Allos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Allos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.los\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #67,266 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Allos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Allos is uncommon French at frequency #67,266 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \al.los\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.".
Allos doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. 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 entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Allos, spelled A-L-L-O-S.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département des Alpes-de-Haute-Provence.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Allos appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le val d’Allos est traversé par le Verdon.
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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