alton
\ˈal.ton\
The verdict
“alton” is uncommon French (frequency #61,292 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,292
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accusatif singulier de alto.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alton · alton · French
alton · rank #61,292 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,292
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ambivalente
Nearest frequency peer: ambivalente (+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 « alton »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
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AIDS
38,713 corpus weight
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alcalin
38,712 corpus weight
- alevins
alevins
38,711 corpus weight
- alton
alton
38,709 corpus weight
- ambivalente
ambivalente
38,708 corpus weight
- Andromeda
Andromeda
38,706 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alton » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alton |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈal.ton\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #61,292 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alton » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alton is uncommon French at frequency #61,292 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈal.ton\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Accusatif singulier de alto.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for alton in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is alton, spelled A-L-T-O-N.
Definition
- 1Accusatif singulier de alto.
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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