alphabet
\al.fa.bɛ\
The verdict
“alphabet” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #11,902. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #11,902
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ensemble ordonné de lettres utilisées dans un système d’écriture pour composer des syllabes et des mots.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alphabet · alphabet · French
alphabet · rank #11,902 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #11,902
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Alexandrie
Nearest frequency peer: Alexandrie (-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 « alphabet »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agréables
agréables
88,101 corpus weight
- Alexandrie
Alexandrie
88,100 corpus weight
- alphabet
alphabet
88,099 corpus weight
- ambiguïté
ambiguïté
88,098 corpus weight
- ambulance
ambulance
88,097 corpus weight
- ancienneté
ancienneté
88,096 corpus weight
What this shows « alphabet » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alphabet |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.fa.bɛ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #11,902 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alphabet »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around alphabet (IPA \al.fa.bɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #11,902 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for alphabet, with forms such as "alhpabet", "allphabet", and "alpahbet". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is alphabet, spelled A-L-P-H-A-B-E-T.
Definition
- 1Ensemble ordonné de lettres utilisées dans un système d’écriture pour composer des syllabes et des mots.
- 2Petit livre qui contient les lettres de l’alphabet et les premières leçons que l’on donne lorsque l’on enseigne à lire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alphabet appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'alphabet n'est là, il faut le rappeler, que pour permettre le classement des mots à l'infini. Cet ordre arbitraire permet en effet de toujours trouver sa place au nouveau venu.
Cet alphabet se compose de quatre-vingt-cinq lettres, classées sans système ni méthode, dans l’ordre où elles se sont offertes à l’esprit de l’inventeur.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alhpabet
- allphabet
- alpahbet
- alphabbet
- alphabett
- alphabte
- alphaebt
- alphbaet
- alphhabet
- alpphabet
- aplhabet
- laphabet
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alphabet - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "alphabet", 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 (12 here; floor ≥5).