alpaga
\al.pa.ɡa\
The verdict
“alpaga” is uncommon French (frequency #65,677 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,677
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ruminant sans cornes de la famille des camélidés qui habite l’Amérique du Sud, de nom scientifique Vicugna pacos Linnaeus, 1758.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpaga · alpaga · French
alpaga · rank #65,677 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,677
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Allonnes
Nearest frequency peer: Allonnes (-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 « alpaga »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- albumine
albumine
34,327 corpus weight
- allied
allied
34,326 corpus weight
- Allonnes
Allonnes
34,325 corpus weight
- alpaga
alpaga
34,324 corpus weight
- Alyson
Alyson
34,323 corpus weight
- amalgamer
amalgamer
34,322 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alpaga » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alpaga |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.pa.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #65,677 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alpaga » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alpaga is uncommon French at frequency #65,677 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.pa.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for alpaga in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is alpaga, spelled A-L-P-A-G-A.
Definition
- 1Ruminant sans cornes de la famille des camélidés qui habite l’Amérique du Sud, de nom scientifique Vicugna pacos Linnaeus, 1758.
- 2Laine légère et fine issue du poil de l’alpaga. Elle donne un tissu très résistant utilisé surtout, seul ou en mélange, dans l’habillement masculin.
- 3Vêtement réalisé avec cette laine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alpaga appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’alpaga a une laine blanche ou noire, quelquefois brune, et presque dépourvue de jarre.
L’archéologie a mis en évidence un autre fait marquant : la domestication des petits camélidés, l’alpaga (Lama pacos) et le lama (Lama glama), issus respectivement de la vigogne (Lama vicugna) et du guanaco (Lama guanicoe).
This word in other languages
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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