altercations
\al.tɛʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\
The verdict
“altercations” is uncommon French (frequency #59,063 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #59,063
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de altercation.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altercations · altercations · French
altercations · rank #59,063 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #59,063
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alo
Nearest frequency peer: alo (-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 « altercations »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aleksandr
Aleksandr
40,942 corpus weight
- Aleksandra
Aleksandra
40,941 corpus weight
- alléchantes
alléchantes
40,940 corpus weight
- alo
alo
40,939 corpus weight
- altercations
altercations
40,938 corpus weight
- amiga
amiga
40,935 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « altercations » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altercations |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.tɛʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #59,063 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « altercations » en français
Rare enough to double-check
altercations is uncommon French at frequency #59,063 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.tɛʁ.ka.sjɔ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de altercation.".
altercations doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, 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 altercations, spelled A-L-T-E-R-C-A-T-I-O-N-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de altercation.
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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