alternés
\al.tɛʁ.ne\
The verdict
“alternés” is uncommon French (frequency #73,698 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,698
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de alterné.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alternes · alternés · French
alternés · rank #73,698 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,698
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alte
Nearest frequency peer: alte (-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 « alternés »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Alexi
Alexi
26,306 corpus weight
- allaitent
allaitent
26,305 corpus weight
- alte
alte
26,304 corpus weight
- alternés
alternés
26,303 corpus weight
- amarillo
amarillo
26,302 corpus weight
- amassées
amassées
26,301 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alternés » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alternés |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.tɛʁ.ne\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #73,698 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alternés » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alternés is uncommon French at frequency #73,698 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \al.tɛʁ.ne\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de alterné.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for alternés, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is alternés, spelled A-L-T-E-R-N-É-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de alterné.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how alternés appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Leurs gloussements alternés et démultipliés d’expirations brisées, reprises et continuées, lui donnent l’impression que la nuit, tout entière enrouée et castrée, se livre déployée à un lent gargarisme bleui lancinamment au suc du méthylène.
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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