alourdir
\a.luʁ.diʁ\
The verdict
“alourdir” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #36,239. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #36,239
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 1
- confusable pair
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Rendre lourd.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alourdir · alourdir · French
alourdir · rank #36,239 · 11 variants · 1 confusable
- FREQ-MID #36,239
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 1 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allégorique
Nearest frequency peer: allégorique (-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 « alourdir »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aliéner
aliéner
63,765 corpus weight
- allouée
allouée
63,764 corpus weight
- allégorique
allégorique
63,763 corpus weight
- alourdir
alourdir
63,762 corpus weight
- aléa
aléa
63,761 corpus weight
- amara
amara
63,760 corpus weight
What this shows « alourdir » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alourdir |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \a.luʁ.diʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #36,239 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 1 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alourdir »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around alourdir (IPA \a.luʁ.diʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #36,239 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for alourdir, with forms such as "allourdir", "alorudir", and "aloudrir". 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 1 confusable-pair relationship, "alourdit", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is alourdir, spelled A-L-O-U-R-D-I-R.
Definition
- 1Rendre lourd.
- 2Devenir lourd.
- 3Rendre moins vif, moins réactif.
- 4Gêner, entraver.
- 5Rendre plus prononcé, plus percutant.
- 6Remplir d'argent ; rendre plus cher.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alourdir appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’eau frangeait les ramures, alourdissait les fils d’araignée, imbibait les écorces gluantes, et des feuilles tombaient, çà et là, en tournant, dans le tranquille égouttement, dans le grand calme profond.
En outre, j'étais fatigué, j'avais mal dormi, je sentis mes paupières s'alourdir et ma tête s'incliner.
Synonyms
Antonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allourdir
- alorudir
- aloudrir
- alourddir
- alourdirr
- alourdri
- alouridr
- alourrdir
- aluordir
- aolurdir
- laourdir
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alourdir - 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.
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 "alourdir"?
What does "alourdir" mean?
What words are commonly confused with "alourdir"?
How do you pronounce "alourdir"?
What language does "alourdir" come from?
Is PlainSpell free to use?
Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alourdir", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).