alourdie
\a.luʁ.di\
The verdict
“alourdie” is uncommon French (frequency #74,540 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,540
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Participe passé féminin singulier de alourdir.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alourdie · alourdie · French
alourdie · rank #74,540 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,540
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alopécie
Nearest frequency peer: alopécie (-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 « alourdie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alluviales
alluviales
25,464 corpus weight
- ALN
ALN
25,463 corpus weight
- alopécie
alopécie
25,462 corpus weight
- alourdie
alourdie
25,461 corpus weight
- alphas
alphas
25,460 corpus weight
- Altkirch
Altkirch
25,459 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alourdie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alourdie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.luʁ.di\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,540 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alourdie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alourdie is uncommon French at frequency #74,540 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \a.luʁ.di\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Participe passé féminin singulier de alourdir.".
No misspelling variants are generated for alourdie in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alourdie, spelled A-L-O-U-R-D-I-E.
Definition
- 1Participe passé féminin singulier de alourdir.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alourdie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Oiseaux chanteurs et de joli plumage, dont : le bengali et le colibri, le bec d’argent, le cardinal, le merle métallique, la « veuve » en voile de deuil alourdie à la saison des amours par sa longue traîne empennée, le parlementaire, les gendarmes ou tisserins ou républicains qui ont tôt fait de désenfeuiller palmiers etc. pour tisser leurs nids des longs…
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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