älteste

/\ˈɛltəstə\/ adj

Letters

7 characters

Language

French

word origin

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

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similar word pairs

älteste is anFrenchadj. It means: Superlatif déclinaison forte du nominatif féminin au singulier de alt. Pronounced \ˈɛltəstə\.

Key facts for älteste
PropertyValue
Headwordälteste
LanguageFrench
Part of speechAdj
IPA\ˈɛltəstə\
Letters7
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

älteste is not present in the top-100,000 ranked French corpus, typical for technical, archaic, or low-frequency vocabulary.

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for älteste is 7 letters long, classified as anadj, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \ˈɛltəstə\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No misspelling variants are generated for älteste in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 älteste, spelled Ä-L-T-E-S-T-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Superlatif déclinaison forte du nominatif féminin au singulier de alt.
  2. 2
    Superlatif déclinaison forte du nominatif de tous les genres au pluriel de alt.
  3. 3
    Superlatif déclinaison forte de l'accusatif féminin au singulier de alt.
  4. 4
    Superlatif déclinaison forte de l'accusatif de tous les genres au pluriel de alt.
  5. 5
    Superlatif déclinaison faible du nominatif de tous les genres au singulier de alt.
  6. 6
    Superlatif déclinaison faible du accusatif féminin au singulier de alt.
  7. 7
    Superlatif déclinaison faible de l’accusatif neutre au singulier de alt.
  8. 8
    Superlatif déclinaison mixte du nominatif féminin au singulier de alt.
  9. 9
    Superlatif déclinaison mixte de l'accusatif féminin au singulier de alt.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "älteste"?
"älteste" is spelled Ä-L-T-E-S-T-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ˈɛltəstə\.
What does "älteste" mean?
As an adj, "älteste" means: Superlatif déclinaison forte du nominatif féminin au singulier de alt.
How do you pronounce "älteste"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "älteste" is \ˈɛltəstə\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "älteste" come from?
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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.