Alsa
The verdict
“Alsa” is uncommon French (frequency #82,660 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #82,660
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ausa ou Ansa, fleuve de Vénétie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alsa · Alsa · French
Alsa · rank #82,660 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #82,660
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH almanachs
Nearest frequency peer: almanachs (-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 « Alsa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- allongez
allongez
17,343 corpus weight
- almanachs
almanachs
17,342 corpus weight
- Alsa
Alsa
17,341 corpus weight
- ambiants
ambiants
17,339 corpus weight
- amorties
amorties
17,338 corpus weight
- améliores
améliores
17,337 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Alsa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alsa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #82,660 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Alsa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Alsa is uncommon French at frequency #82,660 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ausa ou Ansa, fleuve de Vénétie.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Alsa in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Alsa, spelled A-L-S-A.
Definition
- 1Ausa ou Ansa, fleuve de Vénétie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Alsa appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Sequitur decima regio Italiae, Hadriatico mari adposita, cuius Venetia, fluvius Silis ex montibus Tarvisanis, oppidum Altinum, flumen Liquentia ex montibus Opiterginis et portus eodem nomine, colonia Concordia, flumina et portus Reatinum, Tiliaventum Maius Minusque, Anaxum, quo Varamus defluit, Alsa, Natisa cum Turro, praefluentes Aquileiam coloniam XV p.…
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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