allumer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#8,329
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
13
similar word pairs
allumer is aFrenchverb. It means: Enflammer ; mettre le feu à. Pronounced \a.ly.me\. It ranks #8,329 in French word frequency. Often confused with allure and assumer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | allumer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.ly.me\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #8,329 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 13 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for allumer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ly.me\. Corpus data places it at rank #8,329 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 10 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 8 documented wrong-spelling variants for allumer, with forms such as "allmuer", "alluemr", and "allumerr". 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 13 confusable-pair relationships, "allure", "assumer", "allures", and more, 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 allumer, spelled A-L-L-U-M-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Enflammer ; mettre le feu à.
- 2Faire de la lumière, à l’aide d’une lampe ou d’un éclairage artificiel.
- 3Mettre en marche un appareil électrique.
- 4Susciter, exciter, éveiller.
- 5Comprendre de façon soudaine.
- 6Séduire, aguicher quelqu’un.
- 7Recadrer très sévèrement quelqu’un.
- 8S’éclairer.
- 9Démarrer, pour une voiture.
- 10Donner du feu à quelqu'un.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: allmuer,alluemr,allumerr,allummer,allumre,alulmer,alumer,lalumer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
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Misspelling Variants of "allumer"
Frequency rank: #8,329 in French
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