altesses
\al.tɛs\
The verdict
“altesses” is uncommon French (frequency #97,647 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #97,647
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de altesse.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altesses · altesses · French
altesses · rank #97,647 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #97,647
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alti
Nearest frequency peer: alti (+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 « altesses »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ajo
ajo
2,359 corpus weight
- alcali
alcali
2,358 corpus weight
- alpagas
alpagas
2,356 corpus weight
- altesses
altesses
2,354 corpus weight
- alti
alti
2,353 corpus weight
- amendment
amendment
2,351 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « altesses » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altesses |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.tɛs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #97,647 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « altesses » en français
Rare enough to double-check
altesses is uncommon French at frequency #97,647 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.tɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de altesse.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for altesses, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is altesses, spelled A-L-T-E-S-S-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de altesse.
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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