alumni
\a.lym.ni\
The verdict
“alumni” is uncommon French (frequency #55,733 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,733
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancien élève d’une université.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alumni · alumni · French
alumni · rank #55,733 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,733
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH americana
Nearest frequency peer: americana (+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 « alumni »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alizés
alizés
44,271 corpus weight
- Allaire
Allaire
44,270 corpus weight
- alumni
alumni
44,268 corpus weight
- americana
americana
44,267 corpus weight
- América
América
44,266 corpus weight
- analgésique
analgésique
44,265 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alumni » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alumni |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lym.ni\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #55,733 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alumni » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alumni is uncommon French at frequency #55,733 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lym.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ancien élève d’une université.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for alumni, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is alumni, spelled A-L-U-M-N-I.
Definition
- 1Ancien élève d’une université.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alumni appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Association des alumni.
Réseau des alumni.
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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