alpiniste
\al.pi.nist\
The verdict
“alpiniste” has 13 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #43,767. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #43,767
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 13
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui pratique l’alpinisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpiniste · alpiniste · French
alpiniste · rank #43,767 · 13 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,767
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 13 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antifa
Nearest frequency peer: antifa (+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 « alpiniste »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aigreur
aigreur
56,237 corpus weight
- allongent
allongent
56,236 corpus weight
- alpiniste
alpiniste
56,234 corpus weight
- antifa
antifa
56,233 corpus weight
- antigua
antigua
56,232 corpus weight
- antimoine
antimoine
56,231 corpus weight
What this shows « alpiniste » 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 | alpiniste |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.pi.nist\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #43,767 |
| Misspellings tracked | 13 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alpiniste »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 13 spelling variants around alpiniste (IPA \al.pi.nist\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #43,767 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Celui, celle qui pratique l’alpinisme.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 13 likely wrong-spelling variants for alpiniste, with forms such as "alipniste", "allpiniste", and "alpiinste". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "alpinistes", "alpinisme", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 alpiniste, spelled A-L-P-I-N-I-S-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui pratique l’alpinisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alpiniste appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’alpiniste Sophie Lavaud, 55 ans, est devenue, lundi, la première Française à atteindre le sommet des quatorze montagnes de plus de 8 000 m à travers le monde.
Le talent dʼalpiniste de Frank Smythe est doublé dʼun réel talent dʼécrivain capable vraiment de décrire, de raconter une course.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alipniste
- allpiniste
- alpiinste
- alpiniset
- alpinisste
- alpinistte
- alpinitse
- alpinniste
- alpinsite
- alpniiste
- alppiniste
- apliniste
- lapiniste
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alpiniste - 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).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (13 here; floor ≥5).