alternées
\al.tɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“alternées” is uncommon French (frequency #64,921 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,921
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de alterné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alternees · alternées · French
alternées · rank #64,921 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,921
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alm
Nearest frequency peer: alm (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « alternées »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alchimique
alchimique
35,084 corpus weight
- alm
alm
35,081 corpus weight
- alternées
alternées
35,080 corpus weight
- amphis
amphis
35,079 corpus weight
- Angoumois
Angoumois
35,078 corpus weight
- anticoagula…
anticoagulants
35,077 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alternées » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alternées |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.tɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #64,921 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alternées » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alternées is uncommon French at frequency #64,921 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \al.tɛʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de alterné.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alternées, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is alternées, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-É-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de alterné.
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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