alternateur
\al.tɛʁ.na.tœʁ\
The verdict
“alternateur” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #42,727. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #42,727
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui fait alterner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alternateur · alternateur · French
alternateur · rank #42,727 · 16 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #42,727
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alléchante
Nearest frequency peer: alléchante (-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 « alternateur »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Alistair
Alistair
57,277 corpus weight
- allain
allain
57,276 corpus weight
- alléchante
alléchante
57,275 corpus weight
- alternateur
alternateur
57,274 corpus weight
- amortisseme…
amortissements
57,272 corpus weight
- amérindienne
amérindienne
57,271 corpus weight
What this shows « alternateur » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alternateur |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.tɛʁ.na.tœʁ\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #42,727 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alternateur »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around alternateur (IPA \al.tɛʁ.na.tœʁ\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #42,727 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Qui fait alterner.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for alternateur, with forms such as "aletrnateur", "allternateur", and "altenrateur". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is alternateur, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-A-T-E-U-R.
Definition
- 1Qui fait alterner.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aletrnateur
- allternateur
- altenrateur
- alteranteur
- alternaetur
- alternateru
- alternateurr
- alternatteur
- alternatuer
- alternnateur
- alterntaeur
- alterrnateur
- altrenateur
- altternateur
- atlernateur
- laternateur
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alternateur - 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 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (16 here; floor ≥5).