allume
\a.lym\
The verdict
“allume” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #9,264. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #9,264
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit morceau de bois qui sert à allumer une cheminée, un poêle, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allume · allume · French
allume · rank #9,264 · 6 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #9,264
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH affectés
Nearest frequency peer: affectés (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « allume »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- épuisé
épuisé
90,742 corpus weight
- acceptée
acceptée
90,740 corpus weight
- affectés
affectés
90,738 corpus weight
- allume
allume
90,737 corpus weight
- Assad
Assad
90,734 corpus weight
- astuce
astuce
90,732 corpus weight
What this shows « allume » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allume |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lym\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #9,264 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allume »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around allume (IPA \a.lym\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #9,264 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Petit morceau de bois qui sert à allumer une cheminée, un poêle, etc.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for allume, with forms such as "allmue", "alluem", and "allumme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 18 confusable-pair relationships, "allure", "assumé", "allumer", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is allume, spelled A-L-L-U-M-E.
Definition
- 1Petit morceau de bois qui sert à allumer une cheminée, un poêle, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allume appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Enfin, il aperçut, pas très loin de la porte, une petite étagère sur laquelle était un bougeoir garni et quelques allumes phosphoriques. Il alluma la bougie.
À la hachette, je faisais, dans les rondins de frêne et de tilleul, du bois d’allume, fin comme macaroni, tout prêt pour le lendemain matin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allmue
- alluem
- allumme
- alulme
- alume
- lalume
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allume - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).