altos
\al.tɔ\
The verdict
“altos” is uncommon French (frequency #64,225 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,225
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de alto.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altos · altos · French
altos · rank #64,225 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,225
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH align
Nearest frequency peer: align (-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 « altos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aldous
Aldous
35,779 corpus weight
- Aldrin
Aldrin
35,778 corpus weight
- align
align
35,777 corpus weight
- altos
altos
35,776 corpus weight
- amann
amann
35,775 corpus weight
- amantes
amantes
35,774 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « altos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.tɔ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,225 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « altos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
altos is uncommon French at frequency #64,225 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.tɔ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de alto.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for altos, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is altos, spelled A-L-T-O-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel 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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