ALN
\a.ɛl.ɛn\
The verdict
“ALN” is uncommon French (frequency #74,538 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,538
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Bras armé du FLN durant la guerre d’indépendance de l’Algérie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aln · ALN · French
ALN · rank #74,538 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,538
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alluviales
Nearest frequency peer: alluviales (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « ALN »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Algonquins
Algonquins
25,466 corpus weight
- allaitant
allaitant
25,465 corpus weight
- alluviales
alluviales
25,464 corpus weight
- ALN
ALN
25,463 corpus weight
- alopécie
alopécie
25,462 corpus weight
- alourdie
alourdie
25,461 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ALN » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ALN |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɛl.ɛn\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #74,538 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ALN » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ALN is uncommon French at frequency #74,538 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ɛl.ɛn\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Bras armé du FLN durant la guerre d’indépendance de l’Algérie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ALN, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is ALN, spelled A-L-N.
Definition
- 1Bras armé du FLN durant la guerre d’indépendance de l’Algérie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ALN appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dès le début de l’insurrection algérienne, il fut contacté par des officiers de l’ALN (Armée de libération nationale) et la direction politique du FLN.
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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