alou
The verdict
“alou” is uncommon French (frequency #76,299 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an interjection. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,299
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Allons ! allez !
Corpus desk
Index FR-alou · alou · French
alou · rank #76,299 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,299
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allongea
Nearest frequency peer: allongea (-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 « alou »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Allobroges
Allobroges
23,704 corpus weight
- allongea
allongea
23,703 corpus weight
- alou
alou
23,702 corpus weight
- Alya
Alya
23,701 corpus weight
- amado
amado
23,700 corpus weight
- amazonien
amazonien
23,699 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alou » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alou |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Interjection |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #76,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alou » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alou is uncommon French at frequency #76,299 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aninterjection. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Allons ! allez !".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alou, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is alou, spelled A-L-O-U.
Definition
- 1Allons ! allez !
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alou appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
A vy oba už alou dovnitř!
Synonyms
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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