alternée
\al.tɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“alternée” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #30,892. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #30,892
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
- 7
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Espèce de papillon, de nom scientifique Epirrhoe alternata.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alternee · alternée · French
alternée · rank #30,892 · 12 variants · 7 confusables
- FREQ-MID #30,892
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 7 pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allaiter
Nearest frequency peer: allaiter (-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 « alternée »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- adorerais
adorerais
69,112 corpus weight
- affranchis
affranchis
69,111 corpus weight
- allaiter
allaiter
69,110 corpus weight
- alternée
alternée
69,109 corpus weight
- amabilité
amabilité
69,108 corpus weight
- anatomique
anatomique
69,106 corpus weight
What this shows « alternée » 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 | alternée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.tɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #30,892 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 7 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alternée »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around alternée (IPA \al.tɛʁ.ne\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #30,892 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Espèce de papillon, de nom scientifique Epirrhoe alternata.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for alternée, with forms such as "aletrnée", "allternée", and "altenrée". 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 7 confusable-pair relationships, "alterner", "alternent", "altéré", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is alternée, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-É-E.
Definition
- 1Espèce de papillon, de nom scientifique Epirrhoe alternata.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alternée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Faune : rougequeue noir, accenteur mouchet, merle noir, huppe fasciée, pinson des arbres, rougequeue à front blanc, pic épeiche, bergeronnette des ruisseaux, chardonneret élégant, tourterelle turque, aeschne bleue, sympétrum fascié, leste vert, dolomède des marais, chrysolina fastuosa, pisaure admirable, héliophanus auratus, thomise à trois taches, helcys…
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aletrnée
- allternée
- altenrée
- alternee
- alterneé
- alternnée
- alterrnée
- alteréne
- altrenée
- altternée
- atlernée
- laternée
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alternée - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (12 here; floor ≥5).