alpins
\al.pɛ̃\
The verdict
“alpins” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,802. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #35,802
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 18
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de alpin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alpins · alpins · French
alpins · rank #35,802 · 8 variants · 18 confusables
- FREQ-MID #35,802
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 18 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alimentées
Nearest frequency peer: alimentées (-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 « alpins »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adéquatement
adéquatement
64,202 corpus weight
- affine
affine
64,201 corpus weight
- alimentées
alimentées
64,200 corpus weight
- alpins
alpins
64,199 corpus weight
- alta
alta
64,198 corpus weight
- altérée
altérée
64,197 corpus weight
What this shows « alpins » 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 | alpins |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.pɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #35,802 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 18 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alpins »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around alpins (IPA \al.pɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,802 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Masculin pluriel de alpin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for alpins, with forms such as "alipns", "allpins", and "alpinns". 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 18 confusable-pair relationships, "alvin", "apens", "ains", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented 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 alpins, spelled A-L-P-I-N-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de alpin.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alipns
- allpins
- alpinns
- alpinss
- alpisn
- alpnis
- alppins
- aplins
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alpins - 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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).