Alsace
\al.zas\
The verdict
“Alsace” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,037. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,037
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne région administrative de France, le long du Rhin, voisine de la Suisse et de l’Allemagne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alsace · Alsace · French
Alsace · rank #4,037 · 8 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,037
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ailes
Nearest frequency peer: ailes (-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 « Alsace »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- africain
africain
95,967 corpus weight
- africaine
africaine
95,966 corpus weight
- ailes
ailes
95,965 corpus weight
- Alsace
Alsace
95,964 corpus weight
- arbitre
arbitre
95,963 corpus weight
- arguments
arguments
95,962 corpus weight
What this shows « Alsace » 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 | Alsace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.zas\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #4,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alsace »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Alsace (IPA \al.zas\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #4,037 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ancienne région administrative de France, le long du Rhin, voisine de la Suisse et de l’Allemagne.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alsace, with forms such as "alasce", "allsace", and "alsacce". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "audace", "alsacien", "alice", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Alsace, spelled A-L-S-A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Ancienne région administrative de France, le long du Rhin, voisine de la Suisse et de l’Allemagne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alsace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Puis, soudain, je me souviens que c’est aujourd’hui la veille de Noël ! Quel contraste ! Là-bas, en Alsace, la neige tombe en silence et recouvre tout de sa blancheur immaculée.
C’est ainsi qu’elle lui apprit que leur chaland avait fait séjour en Alsace, en septembre de l’année précédente, amarré le long d’une des îles verdoyantes, dont la rive du Rhin est toute obstruée.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alasce
- allsace
- alsacce
- alsaec
- alscae
- alssace
- aslace
- lasace
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alsace - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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).