Alpilles
\al.pij\
The verdict
“Alpilles” is uncommon French (frequency #57,069 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #57,069
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Massif montagneux situé au nord-ouest du département français des Bouches-du-Rhône.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpilles · Alpilles · French
Alpilles · rank #57,069 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #57,069
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aloha
Nearest frequency peer: aloha (-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 « Alpilles »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Albertini
Albertini
42,935 corpus weight
- alleluia
alleluia
42,934 corpus weight
- aloha
aloha
42,933 corpus weight
- Alpilles
Alpilles
42,932 corpus weight
- amazigh
amazigh
42,931 corpus weight
- amenèrent
amenèrent
42,930 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Alpilles » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alpilles |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.pij\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #57,069 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Alpilles » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Alpilles is uncommon French at frequency #57,069 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \al.pij\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Massif montagneux situé au nord-ouest du département français des Bouches-du-Rhône.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Alpilles in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. 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.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Alpilles, spelled A-L-P-I-L-L-E-S.
Definition
- 1Massif montagneux situé au nord-ouest du département français des Bouches-du-Rhône.
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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