altérer
\al.te.ʁe\
The verdict
“altérer” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #22,157. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #22,157
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 11
- tracked misspellings
- 15
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Modifier dans sa nature, dans sa structure, un corps.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alterer · altérer · French
altérer · rank #22,157 · 11 variants · 15 confusables
- FREQ-MID #22,157
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 15 pairs
- VAR-MID 11 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alternativeme…
Nearest frequency peer: alternativement (-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 « altérer »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- alternant
alternant
77,846 corpus weight
- alternative…
alternativement
77,845 corpus weight
- altérer
altérer
77,844 corpus weight
- ambiances
ambiances
77,843 corpus weight
- amusez
amusez
77,842 corpus weight
- amènera
amènera
77,841 corpus weight
What this shows « altérer » 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 | altérer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \al.te.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #22,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 11 |
| Confusable pairs | 15 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « altérer »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 11 spelling variants around altérer (IPA \al.te.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #22,157 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 4 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for altérer, with forms such as "alltérer", "alterer", and "altréer". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 15 confusable-pair relationships, "artère", "avérer", "attirer", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 altérer, spelled A-L-T-É-R-E-R.
Definition
- 1Modifier dans sa nature, dans sa structure, un corps.
- 2Modifier en bien ou en mal.
- 3Modifier en mal.
- 4Causer de la soif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how altérer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Or, le bruit se répandit bientôt que le juif avait jeté l’hostie dans une cuve d’eau bouillante, à la suite de quoi l’eau aurait rougi sans s’altérer.
Les babys conservent le Coran, mais en l’altérant sensiblement sur plusieurs points; ainsi ils croient à la métempsycose, ils veulent l’émancipation de la femme, ils remplacent le théisme par un véritable panthéisme, […].
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alltérer
- alterer
- altréer
- alttérer
- altéerr
- altérerr
- altérre
- altérrer
- alétrer
- atlérer
- latérer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of altérer - 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
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "altérer", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).