Alphée
\al.fe\
The verdict
“Alphée” is uncommon French (frequency #87,312 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #87,312
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve du Péloponnèse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alphee · Alphée · French
Alphée · rank #87,312 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #87,312
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH almamy
Nearest frequency peer: almamy (-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 « Alphée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alin
alin
12,692 corpus weight
- allergologue
allergologue
12,691 corpus weight
- almamy
almamy
12,690 corpus weight
- Alphée
Alphée
12,689 corpus weight
- although
although
12,688 corpus weight
- ambitionnent
ambitionnent
12,687 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Alphée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alphée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.fe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #87,312 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Alphée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Alphée is uncommon French at frequency #87,312 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \al.fe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Alphée, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Alphée, spelled A-L-P-H-É-E.
Definition
- 1Fleuve du Péloponnèse.
- 2Dieu-fleuve personnifiant ce cours d’eau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Alphée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quand d’Alphée avec elle [Diane] ou du frais Érymanthe, Des nymphes de sa suite une troupe brillante, D’un jeune chœur dansant vient égayer les bois, Son épaule divine agite son carquois.
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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