altérée

\al.te.ʁe\

/\al.te.ʁe\/ adj

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The verdict

“altérée” has 10 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #35,804. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#35,804
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
10
tracked misspellings
15
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de altéré.

Corpus desk

Index FR-alteree · altérée · French

altérée · rank #35,804 · 10 variants · 15 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #35,804
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
  • VAR-MID 10 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH alta

Nearest frequency peer: alta (-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 « altérée »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « altérée » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

altérée vs artère
57% similar
altérée vs avérée
71% similar
altérée vs artères
43% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for altérée
PropertyValue
Headwordaltérée
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdjective
IPA\al.te.ʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#35,804
Misspellings tracked10
Confusable pairs15
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « altérée »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).altéréese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « alta » (#35,803), « ambulants » (#35,805), « alpins » (#35,802). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « altérée » est au #35,804. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 10 spelling variants around altérée (IPA \al.te.ʁe\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #35,804 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin singulier de altéré.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for altérée, with forms such as "alltérée", "alteree", and "altréée". 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 15 confusable-pair relationships, "artère", "avérée", "artères", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is altérée, spelled A-L-T-É-R-É-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Féminin singulier de altéré.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • alltérée
  • alteree
  • altréée
  • alttérée
  • altéreé
  • altérrée
  • altéére
  • alétrée
  • atlérée
  • latérée

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of altérée - 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.

alltérée1alteree2altréée2alttérée1altéreé2altérrée1altéére2alétrée2
Edit distance from "altérée"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "altérée"?
"altérée" is spelled A-L-T-É-R-É-E. The IPA pronunciation is \al.te.ʁe\.
What does "altérée" mean?
As an adjective, "altérée" means: Féminin singulier de altéré.
What words are commonly confused with "altérée"?
"altérée" is commonly confused with "artère", "avérée", "artères". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "altérée"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "altérée" is \al.te.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "altérée" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "altérée", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

anarcho#35,807abréger#35,792Audiard#35,817autours#35,819

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (10 here; floor ≥5).

arrangée10 variantsaccoster10 variantsBrahms10 variantsvisionné10 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list