Alternative
\ˌaltɛʁnaˈtiːvə\
The verdict
“Alternative” has 16 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #4,203. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #4,203
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 16
- tracked misspellings
- 3
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alternative.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alternative · Alternative · French
Alternative · rank #4,203 · 16 variants · 3 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #4,203
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 3 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 16 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH éthique
Nearest frequency peer: éthique (-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 « Alternative »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- world
world
95,801 corpus weight
- énergétique
énergétique
95,800 corpus weight
- éthique
éthique
95,799 corpus weight
- Alternative
Alternative
95,798 corpus weight
- amène
amène
95,797 corpus weight
- Android
Android
95,796 corpus weight
What this shows « Alternative » 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 | Alternative |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˌaltɛʁnaˈtiːvə\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #4,203 |
| Misspellings tracked | 16 |
| Confusable pairs | 3 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Alternative »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 16 spelling variants around Alternative (IPA \ˌaltɛʁnaˈtiːvə\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #4,203 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Alternative.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 16 likely wrong-spelling variants for Alternative, with forms such as "aletrnative", "allternative", and "altenrative". 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 3 confusable-pair relationships, "alternatives", "alternatif", "alternatifs", since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 Alternative, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-A-T-I-V-E.
Definition
- 1Alternative.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Alternative appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Die Welt ist voller guter Ideen und Alternativen zum einsamen Autofahren. Aber die Bundesregierung greift sie nicht auf. Das ist enttäuschend von einer Regierung mit grüner Beteiligung.
Der Bahn-Beauftragte des Bundes wirbt um Verständnis für die vielen verspäteten Züge. Es gebe keine Alternative zur Generalsanierung des Schienennetzes.
Synonyms
Antonyms
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aletrnative
- allternative
- altenrative
- alterantive
- alternaitve
- alternatiev
- alternativve
- alternattive
- alternatvie
- alternnative
- alterntaive
- alterrnative
- altrenative
- altternative
- atlernative
- laternative
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Alternative - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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 "Alternative", not the corpus desk frequency band.
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).