alun
\a.lœ̃\
The verdict
“alun” is uncommon French (frequency #53,120 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #53,120
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom générique donné aux sulfates doubles d'aluminium avec un autre ion, mais aussi à d'autre sulfates où l'aluminium est remplacé par d'autres métaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alun · alun · French
alun · rank #53,120 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #53,120
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alten
Nearest frequency peer: alten (-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 « alun »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Alfortville
Alfortville
46,884 corpus weight
- Algerien
Algerien
46,883 corpus weight
- alten
alten
46,882 corpus weight
- alun
alun
46,881 corpus weight
- Amalric
Amalric
46,880 corpus weight
- aménage
aménage
46,878 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alun » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alun |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.lœ̃\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #53,120 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alun » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alun is uncommon French at frequency #53,120 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.lœ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for alun in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
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 alun, spelled A-L-U-N.
Definition
- 1Nom générique donné aux sulfates doubles d'aluminium avec un autre ion, mais aussi à d'autre sulfates où l'aluminium est remplacé par d'autres métaux.
- 2Sulfate acide d’aluminium et de potassium, ou d’ammonium. Sel astringent utilisé dans les arts, en teinturerie et en thérapeutique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alun appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La salure en est beaucoup plus forte que celle de la mer, et elle produit sur les lèvres l’effet d’une forte solution d’alun.
Plus tard on a reconnu que les acides chromique, chlorique, borique, acétique, et oxalique, ainsi que les chlorures de magnésium et d'étain, et enfin les aluns, se comportaient comme l'acide fluorhydrique.
This word in other languages
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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