alpin
\al.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“alpin” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #15,560. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #15,560
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 6
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif aux Alpes ; qui croît, qui habite, ou qui se trouve sur ou dans celles-ci.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpin · alpin · French
alpin · rank #15,560 · 6 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #15,560
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 6 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alt
Nearest frequency peer: alt (+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 « alpin »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- again
again
84,444 corpus weight
- aisance
aisance
84,443 corpus weight
- alpin
alpin
84,441 corpus weight
- alt
alt
84,440 corpus weight
- amalgame
amalgame
84,439 corpus weight
- amoureuses
amoureuses
84,438 corpus weight
What this shows « alpin » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alpin |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #15,560 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alpin »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 6 spelling variants around alpin (IPA \al.pɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #15,560 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for alpin, with forms such as "alipn", "allpin", and "alpinn". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "API", "amin", "aubin", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 alpin, spelled A-L-P-I-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif aux Alpes ; qui croît, qui habite, ou qui se trouve sur ou dans celles-ci.
- 2Relatif aux hautes montagnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alpin appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le mot « alpin » a pris chez les botanistes et les géographes, un sens mondial, il désigne, avec plus ou moins de netteté, ce qui a trait aux hautes montagnes. On parle, par exemple, de l'étage alpin des Montagnes Rocheuses.
Comme ces plantes alpines dont la racine est plongée dans des glaces éternelles…
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alipn
- allpin
- alpinn
- alpni
- alppin
- aplin
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alpin - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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