altéré
\al.te.ʁe\
The verdict
“altéré” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #26,954. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #26,954
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Assoiffé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altere · altéré · French
altéré · rank #26,954 · 9 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #26,954
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aldo
Nearest frequency peer: aldo (-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 « altéré »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- agraire
agraire
73,050 corpus weight
- aisselles
aisselles
73,049 corpus weight
- aldo
aldo
73,048 corpus weight
- altéré
altéré
73,047 corpus weight
- amante
amante
73,046 corpus weight
- Amédée
Amédée
73,044 corpus weight
What this shows « altéré » 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 | altéré |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.te.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #26,954 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « altéré »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around altéré (IPA \al.te.ʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #26,954 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Assoiffé.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for altéré, with forms such as "alltéré", "altere", and "altréé". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "autre", "avéré", "amère", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, 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 altéré, spelled A-L-T-É-R-É.
Definition
- 1Assoiffé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how altéré appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Bellombre avait appelé ses valets, qui couvrirent la nappe d’assiettes et de pots à large panse, à la grande jubilation de Blazius altéré de naissance, dont la soif était toujours éveillée, même aux heures nocturnes.
Laisse-moi respirer longtemps, longtemps, l'odeur de tes cheveux, y plonger tout mon visage, comme un homme altéré dans l'eau d'une source …
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alltéré
- altere
- altréé
- alttéré
- altérré
- altéér
- alétré
- atléré
- latéré
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of altéré - 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 (9 here; floor ≥5).