alvéole
\al.ve.ɔl\
The verdict
“alvéole” is uncommon French (frequency #88,305 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #88,305
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Petit creux ou cavité plus ou moins fermée.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alveole · alvéole · French
alvéole · rank #88,305 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #88,305
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH almoravides
Nearest frequency peer: almoravides (-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 « alvéole »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- allogènes
allogènes
11,699 corpus weight
- almohades
almohades
11,698 corpus weight
- almoravides
almoravides
11,697 corpus weight
- alvéole
alvéole
11,696 corpus weight
- amorcées
amorcées
11,694 corpus weight
- amorçant
amorçant
11,693 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « alvéole » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | alvéole |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ve.ɔl\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #88,305 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « alvéole » en français
Rare enough to double-check
alvéole is uncommon French at frequency #88,305 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.ve.ɔl\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 7 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for alvéole, 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.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is alvéole, spelled A-L-V-É-O-L-E.
Definition
- 1Petit creux ou cavité plus ou moins fermée.
- 2Cellule de forme hexagonale où les abeilles déposent leurs œufs, leur miel, du pollen.
- 3Cavité de l’os maxillaire ou de la mandibule dans laquelle chaque dent est enchâssée.
- 4Très petite cavité du poumon, alvéole pulmonaire.
- 5Petite cavité que l’on observe dans certaines roches.
- 6Loge formée par les carpelles soudés du pistil de certaines plantes.
- 7Cellule dans un bâtiment.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how alvéole appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On range les œufs dans un carton formé d’alvéoles.
Ces hardis lurons se mettaient à desceller une grosse pierre juste au-dessus de lui. Les dents et les pattes faisaient merveille, et le bloc de granit, glissant soudain hors de son alvéole, tombait sur le chat, ou si près de lui qu’il en sentait le vent.
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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