alpinisme
\al.pi.nism\
The verdict
“alpinisme” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,813. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,813
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sport qui consiste à faire des ascensions dans les Alpes et, par extension, dans n’importe quelles montagnes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpinisme · alpinisme · French
alpinisme · rank #31,813 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,813
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alouette
Nearest frequency peer: alouette (-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 « alpinisme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aigre
aigre
68,191 corpus weight
- aimerez
aimerez
68,190 corpus weight
- alouette
alouette
68,189 corpus weight
- alpinisme
alpinisme
68,188 corpus weight
- alternent
alternent
68,187 corpus weight
- altruiste
altruiste
68,186 corpus weight
What this shows « alpinisme » 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 | alpinisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.pi.nism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,813 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alpinisme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around alpinisme (IPA \al.pi.nism\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #31,813 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Sport qui consiste à faire des ascensions dans les Alpes et, par extension, dans n’importe quelles montagnes.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for alpinisme, with forms such as "alipnisme", "allpinisme", and "alpiinsme". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "alpiniste", "alpinistes", a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is alpinisme, spelled A-L-P-I-N-I-S-M-E.
Definition
- 1Sport qui consiste à faire des ascensions dans les Alpes et, par extension, dans n’importe quelles montagnes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alpinisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’alpinisme se développe de plus en plus.
La passion, les émotions de l’alpinisme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alipnisme
- allpinisme
- alpiinsme
- alpinimse
- alpinisem
- alpinismme
- alpinissme
- alpinnisme
- alpinsime
- alpniisme
- alppinisme
- aplinisme
- lapinisme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alpinisme - 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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).