alsacien
\al.za.sjɛ̃\
The verdict
“alsacien” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,059. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #17,059
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Relatif à l’Alsace, région administrative de France, ou aux Alsaciens, ses habitants.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alsacien · alsacien · French
alsacien · rank #17,059 · 11 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-MID #17,059
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Alonso
Nearest frequency peer: Alonso (-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 « alsacien »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- afflux
afflux
82,945 corpus weight
- alcoolisme
alcoolisme
82,944 corpus weight
- Alonso
Alonso
82,943 corpus weight
- alsacien
alsacien
82,942 corpus weight
- aléas
aléas
82,941 corpus weight
- amber
amber
82,940 corpus weight
What this shows « alsacien » 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 | alsacien |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.za.sjɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #17,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alsacien »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around alsacien (IPA \al.za.sjɛ̃\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #17,059 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for alsacien, with forms such as "alascien", "allsacien", and "alsaccien". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "alsaciens", "alsacienne", "Alsace", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is alsacien, spelled A-L-S-A-C-I-E-N.
Definition
- 1Relatif à l’Alsace, région administrative de France, ou aux Alsaciens, ses habitants.
- 2Relatif à l’alsacien, langue régionale d’Alsace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alsacien appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
[…] mais lorsque la petite pièce décoincée avait échappé à sa main tremblotante, en manque d'alcool, il s'était répandu dans un flot d’insultes schleues que seul Jean-Marie, l’ouvrier alsacien, avait compris.
Au mur, au-dessus du lit préparé pour la nuit, entre deux petites lampes alsaciennes, l’étonnante photographie, noire et blanche, étroite et longue, d’un oiseau en plein ciel, surprendrait par sa perfection un peu formelle.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alascien
- allsacien
- alsaccien
- alsacein
- alsacienn
- alsacine
- alsaicen
- alscaien
- alssacien
- aslacien
- lasacien
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alsacien - 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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).