alternent
\al.tɛʁn\
The verdict
“alternent” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,814. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,814
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe alterner.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alternent · alternent · French
alternent · rank #31,814 · 14 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,814
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alpinisme
Nearest frequency peer: alpinisme (-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 « alternent »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aimerez
aimerez
68,190 corpus weight
- alouette
alouette
68,189 corpus weight
- alpinisme
alpinisme
68,188 corpus weight
- alternent
alternent
68,187 corpus weight
- altruiste
altruiste
68,186 corpus weight
- AMG
AMG
68,185 corpus weight
What this shows « alternent » 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 | alternent |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \al.tɛʁn\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #31,814 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alternent »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around alternent (IPA \al.tɛʁn\), averb. Corpus frequency is #31,814 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for alternent, with forms such as "aletrnent", "allternent", and "altenrent". 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 5 confusable-pair relationships, "alterner", "alterne", "alternée", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 alternent, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-E-N-T.
Definition
- 1Troisième personne du pluriel de l’indicatif présent du verbe alterner.
- 2Troisième personne du pluriel du subjonctif présent du verbe alterner.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alternent appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce sont des calcaires compactes, sub-lithographiques, dont quelques-uns ont un faux aspect de calcaire grossier marin, et d’autres qui sont celluleux, alternent avec des marnes plus ou moins argileuses.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aletrnent
- allternent
- altenrent
- alterennt
- alternennt
- alternentt
- alternetn
- alternnent
- alternnet
- alterrnent
- altrenent
- altternent
- atlernent
- laternent
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alternent - 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 "alternent", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (14 here; floor ≥5).