allusoire
\a(l).ly.zwaʁ\
The verdict
“allusoire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Allusif, qui relève de l’allusion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-allusoire · allusoire · French
allusoire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 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 | allusoire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a(l).ly.zwaʁ\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
allusoire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a(l).ly.zwaʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Allusif, qui relève de l’allusion.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for allusoire, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is allusoire, spelled A-L-L-U-S-O-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1Allusif, qui relève de l’allusion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how allusoire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il y a près d’un demi-siècle que quelques savants politiques disputaient si la mer était libre ou non, les uns soutenaient en faveur de certains états d’Italie, que la mer de devait pas être moins soumise que la terre ; la république de Venise ne pouvait pas bien adopter ce sentiment, son doge par une cérémonie allusoire, et qui n’a pas peut-être de meill…
La nouveauté de Mallarmé fut de concentrer à un second degré ces qualités naturelles du lyrisme, de transporter aux mots eux-mêmes cette fonction toute allusoire des notions.
Synonyms
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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.