alluder
\a.ly.de\
The verdict
“alluder” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Faire allusion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alluder · alluder · French
alluder · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alluder |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ly.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alluder » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alluder is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as averb, transcribed \a.ly.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Faire allusion.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for alluder, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alluder, spelled A-L-L-U-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Faire allusion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alluder appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les mots arabes auxquels je viens d'alluder se trouvent dans la notice sur Rabî.
Je vais même plus loin; j'ose entreprendre l'apologie de Dieu, en cas qu'il n'ait pas trouvé à propos d'accorder l'immortalité à l'âme, et je finis par alluder du bien qu'il me fait à présent sur celui qu'il me fera dans l'avenir.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.