alpagas
\al.pa.ɡa\
The verdict
“alpagas” is uncommon French (frequency #97,645 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,645
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de alpaga.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpagas · alpagas · French
alpagas · rank #97,645 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,645
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alcali
Nearest frequency peer: alcali (-2 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 « alpagas »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Airparif
Airparif
2,361 corpus weight
- ajo
ajo
2,359 corpus weight
- alcali
alcali
2,358 corpus weight
- alpagas
alpagas
2,356 corpus weight
- altesses
altesses
2,354 corpus weight
- alti
alti
2,353 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alpagas » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alpagas |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.pa.ɡa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #97,645 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alpagas » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alpagas is uncommon French at frequency #97,645 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.pa.ɡa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de alpaga.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alpagas, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alpagas, spelled A-L-P-A-G-A-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de alpaga.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alpagas appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Une véritable arche de Noé, où cohabitent cochons vietnamiens, dindons, moutons, lapins, cochons d’Inde, alpagas, poulets, baudets du Poitou…
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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