alter ego
\al.tɛ.ʁ‿e.ɡo\
The verdict
“alter ego” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne à qui on accorde une confiance absolue et qu’on charge d’agir en son nom.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alter-ego · alter ego · French
alter ego · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alter ego |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.tɛ.ʁ‿e.ɡo\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
alter ego is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.tɛ.ʁ‿e.ɡo\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alter ego, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is alter ego, spelled A-L-T-E-R- -E-G-O.
Definition
- 1Personne à qui on accorde une confiance absolue et qu’on charge d’agir en son nom.
- 2Second moi ; âme sœur.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alter ego appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Dumay, devenu l’alter Ego de l’armateur, apprit en peu de temps la tenue des livres, cette science qui distingue, selon son mot, les sergents-majors du commerce.
En ce moment, Montcornet devait résoudre une difficulté qui lui sembla plus pressante, il lui fallait un alter ego qui le remplaçât à la mairie pendant le temps de son séjour à Paris.
This word in other languages
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.