altèrent
\al.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“altèrent” is uncommon French (frequency #58,397 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #58,397
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe altérer.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alterent · altèrent · French
altèrent · rank #58,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #58,397
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alésage
Nearest frequency peer: alésage (+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 « altèrent »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aisha
Aisha
41,608 corpus weight
- Aleksandar
Aleksandar
41,607 corpus weight
- altèrent
altèrent
41,604 corpus weight
- alésage
alésage
41,603 corpus weight
- amb
amb
41,602 corpus weight
- Ambert
Ambert
41,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « altèrent » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altèrent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \al.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #58,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « altèrent » en français
Rare enough to double-check
altèrent is uncommon French at frequency #58,397 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \al.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for altèrent in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is altèrent, spelled A-L-T-È-R-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe altérer.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe altérer.
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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