Alpi
\ˈal.pi\
The verdict
“Alpi” is uncommon French (frequency #99,847 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,847
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alpes, chaîne de montagnes s’étendant sur les territoires de l’Italie, de la France, de la Suisse, de l’Autriche, du Liechtenstein, de l’Allemagne et de la Slovénie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpi · Alpi · French
Alpi · rank #99,847 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,847
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Allium
Nearest frequency peer: Allium (-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 « Alpi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aldébaran
Aldébaran
158 corpus weight
- alleux
alleux
156 corpus weight
- Allium
Allium
155 corpus weight
- Alpi
Alpi
154 corpus weight
- altière
altière
153 corpus weight
- Alys
Alys
152 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Alpi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alpi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ˈal.pi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #99,847 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Alpi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Alpi is uncommon French at frequency #99,847 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ˈal.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Alpes, chaîne de montagnes s’étendant sur les territoires de l’Italie, de la France, de la Suisse, de l’Autriche, du Liechtenstein, de l’Allemagne et de la Slovénie.".
Alpi has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Alpi, spelled A-L-P-I.
Definition
- 1Alpes, chaîne de montagnes s’étendant sur les territoires de l’Italie, de la France, de la Suisse, de l’Autriche, du Liechtenstein, de l’Allemagne et de la Slovénie.
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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