alto
\al.to\
The verdict
“alto” has 5 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #19,737. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #19,737
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 5
- tracked misspellings
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans la musique vocale, voix correspondant à la voix féminine la plus grave.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alto · alto · French
alto · rank #19,737 · 5 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #19,737
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-MID 5 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alsaciens
Nearest frequency peer: alsaciens (-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 « alto »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- aliens
aliens
80,266 corpus weight
- alsaciens
alsaciens
80,265 corpus weight
- alto
alto
80,264 corpus weight
- améliorent
améliorent
80,263 corpus weight
- anodin
anodin
80,262 corpus weight
- apps
apps
80,261 corpus weight
What this shows « alto » 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 | alto |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.to\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #19,737 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « alto »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 5 spelling variants around alto (IPA \al.to\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #19,737 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 5 likely wrong-spelling variants for alto, with forms such as "allto", "alot", and "altto". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "at", "Art", "ATP", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is alto, spelled A-L-T-O.
Definition
- 1Dans la musique vocale, voix correspondant à la voix féminine la plus grave.
- 2Ellipse pour violon alto.
- 3Dans un orchestre de jazz, ellipse pour saxophone alto.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alto appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En l'espace de quelques années, il fit évacuer tous les falsettistes restants pour les remplacer par des castrats sopranos, les parties d’alto demeurant encore assez longtemps confiées à des faussets.
Jouer de l’alto.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- allto
- alot
- altto
- atlo
- lato
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of alto - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 "alto", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (5 here; floor ≥5).