alternatives
\al.tɛʁ.na.tiv\
The verdict
“alternatives” has 18 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #7,269. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #7,269
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 18
- tracked misspellings
- 2
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de alternatif.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alternatives · alternatives · French
alternatives · rank #7,269 · 18 variants · 2 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #7,269
- LEN-MEGA 12 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-LOW 2 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 18 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adolescence
Nearest frequency peer: adolescence (-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 « alternatives »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- étroite
étroite
92,735 corpus weight
- achevé
achevé
92,734 corpus weight
- adolescence
adolescence
92,733 corpus weight
- alternatives
alternatives
92,732 corpus weight
- ambitieux
ambitieux
92,731 corpus weight
- amours
amours
92,730 corpus weight
What this shows « alternatives » 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 | alternatives |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.tɛʁ.na.tiv\ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #7,269 |
| Misspellings tracked | 18 |
| Confusable pairs | 2 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alternatives »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 18 spelling variants around alternatives (IPA \al.tɛʁ.na.tiv\), anadjective. Corpus frequency is #7,269 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Féminin pluriel de alternatif.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 18 likely wrong-spelling variants for alternatives, with forms such as "aletrnatives", "allternatives", and "altenratives". 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 2 confusable-pair relationships, "Alternative", "alternatifs", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is alternatives, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-A-T-I-V-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de alternatif.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alternatives appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les théories alternatives n’ont pas à être cohérentes et peuvent même se contredire les unes les autres sur certains points.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aletrnatives
- allternatives
- altenratives
- alterantives
- alternaitves
- alternatievs
- alternativess
- alternativse
- alternativves
- alternattives
- alternatvies
- alternnatives
- alterntaives
- alterrnatives
- altrenatives
- altternatives
- atlernatives
- laternatives
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alternatives - 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
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 12 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (18 here; floor ≥5).