alterner

/\al.tɛʁ.ne\/ verb

Letters

8 characters

Frequency Rank

#30,458

in French word usage

Misspellings

12

tracked variants

Confusables

8

similar word pairs

alterner is aFrenchverb. It means: Faire successivement et tour à tour une même chose en parlant de deux personnes. Pronounced \al.tɛʁ.ne\. Often confused with altéré and alerter.

Key facts for alterner
PropertyValue
Headwordalterner
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\al.tɛʁ.ne\
Letters8
Frequency rank#30,458
Misspellings tracked12
Confusable pairs8
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of alterner in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for alterner is 8 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \al.tɛʁ.ne\. Corpus data places it at rank #30,458 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for alterner, with forms such as "aletrner", "allterner", and "altenrer". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "altéré", "alerter", "altérer", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is alterner, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Faire successivement et tour à tour une même chose en parlant de deux personnes.
  2. 2
    Se succéder tour à tour et avec régularité, pour des objets.
  3. 3
    Faire produire tour à tour à un champ des céréales et des fourrages.
  4. 4
    Utiliser tour à tour dans une même saison ou sur plusieurs années des phytosanitaires différents pour éviter l'apparition de parasites résistants.

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: aletrner,allterner,altenrer,alterenr,alternerr,alternner,alternre,alterrner,altrener,altterner,atlerner,laterner

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for alterner

Misspelling Variants of "alterner"

aletrner8allterner9altenrer8alterenr8alternerr9alternner9alternre8alterrner9
Misspelling Variants of "alterner"

Frequency rank: #30,458 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "alterner"?
"alterner" is spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \al.tɛʁ.ne\.
What does "alterner" mean?
As a verb, "alterner" means: Faire successivement et tour à tour une même chose en parlant de deux personnes.
What words are commonly confused with "alterner"?
"alterner" is commonly confused with "altéré", "alerter", "altérer". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "alterner"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "alterner" is \al.tɛʁ.ne\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "alterner" come from?
"alterner" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.