alu
French, noun/a.ly/
alu is spelled A-L-U (3 letters) and appears 1.5 times per million words in written French, the 24,143rd most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Alu is a French masculine noun meaning “clipping of aluminium” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Aluminium”.
What does alu mean in English?
noun
- 1
colloquialmasculineclipping of aluminium
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Aluminium. 2. Fer léger en aluminium d’un cheval de course.
noun: 1. Unité arithmétique et logique.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of alu
- ALUs plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce alu?
- /a.ly/
- \a.ly\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to alu
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is alu in French?
alu appears 1.5 times per million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).