allumette
\a.ly.mɛt\
The verdict
“allumette” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #38,639. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #38,639
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bâtonnet de bois ou de carton recouvert, à une extrémité, d’un produit inflammable.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allumette · allumette · French
allumette · rank #38,639 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,639
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allai
Nearest frequency peer: allai (-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 « allumette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- algorithmiq…
algorithmique
61,365 corpus weight
- alicante
alicante
61,364 corpus weight
- allai
allai
61,363 corpus weight
- allumette
allumette
61,362 corpus weight
- ambiguïtés
ambiguïtés
61,361 corpus weight
- ambivalence
ambivalence
61,360 corpus weight
What this shows « allumette » 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 | allumette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ly.mɛt\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #38,639 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « allumette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around allumette (IPA \a.ly.mɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #38,639 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for allumette, with forms such as "allmuette", "alluemtte", and "allumete". 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 4 confusable-pair relationships, "alouette", "allumettes", "allumée", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is allumette, spelled A-L-L-U-M-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Bâtonnet de bois ou de carton recouvert, à une extrémité, d’un produit inflammable.
- 2Pâtisserie composée de pâte feuilletée glacée au sucre.
- 3Morceau de viande taillé en allumette, généralement du porc.
- 4Petite quantité, en parlant d’alcool, en France on dit plutôt un doigt.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allumette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle avait dans sa poche la clef de la porte de la rue, la clé de l’appartement que vous voyez, des allumettes et un rat de cave pour monter l’escalier, car la maison était déjà abandonnée.
Je m’apprête à allumer la lampe. Je frotte une allumette. Elle ne prend pas, le phosphore s’écaille, elle se casse. Je la jette, et, un peu las, j’attends…
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allmuette
- alluemtte
- allumete
- allumetet
- allummette
- allumtete
- alulmette
- alumette
- lalumette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of allumette - 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 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).