alouettes

\a.lwɛt\

/\a.lwɛt\/ noun

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The verdict

“alouettes” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,969. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#33,969
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
2
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de alouette.

Corpus desk

Index FR-alouettes · alouettes · French

alouettes · rank #33,969 · 10 variants · 2 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #33,969
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH alive

Nearest frequency peer: alive (-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 « alouettes »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « alouettes » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

alouettes vs alouette
89% similar
alouettes vs allumettes
80% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for alouettes
PropertyValue
Headwordalouettes
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.lwɛt\
Letters9
Frequency rank#33,969
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alouettes »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.alouettesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « alive » (#33,968), « amnésique » (#33,970), « aimeras » (#33,966). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « alouettes » est au #33,969. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around alouettes (IPA \a.lwɛt\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #33,969 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Pluriel de alouette.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for alouettes, with forms such as "allouettes", "aloeuttes", and "alouetes". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "alouette", "allumettes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alouettes, spelled A-L-O-U-E-T-T-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Pluriel de alouette.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how alouettes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Sous les mailles du filet il ne retrouvera que les trois alouettes qui s’étaient posées et les “semets” qui battent des ailes.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • allouettes
  • aloeuttes
  • alouetes
  • alouetets
  • alouettess
  • alouettse
  • aloutetes
  • aluoettes
  • aoluettes
  • laouettes

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alouettes - 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.

allouettes1aloeuttes2alouetes1alouetets2alouettess1alouettse2aloutetes2aluoettes2
Edit distance from "alouettes"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alouettes"?
"alouettes" is spelled A-L-O-U-E-T-T-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \a.lwɛt\.
What does "alouettes" mean?
As a noun, "alouettes" means: Pluriel de alouette.
What words are commonly confused with "alouettes"?
"alouettes" is commonly confused with "alouette", "allumettes". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "alouettes"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alouettes" is \a.lwɛt\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alouettes" come from?
"alouettes" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alouettes", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

amnésique#33,970anglicane#33,974aggravant#33,962arriverez#33,980

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

arborer10 variantsarrêtais10 variantsabrupte10 variantsabattent10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list