Arlette
\aʁ.lɛt\
The verdict
“Arlette” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #31,348. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #31,348
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 8
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-arlette · Arlette · French
Arlette · rank #31,348 · 8 variants · 8 confusables
- FREQ-MID #31,348
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 8 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antiquaire
Nearest frequency peer: antiquaire (-2 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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Arlette »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Anselme
Anselme
68,657 corpus weight
- anthropolog…
anthropologique
68,656 corpus weight
- antiquaire
antiquaire
68,655 corpus weight
- Arlette
Arlette
68,653 corpus weight
- ascendante
ascendante
68,651 corpus weight
- asiles
asiles
68,650 corpus weight
What this shows « Arlette » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Arlette |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʁ.lɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #31,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 8 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Arlette »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Arlette (IPA \aʁ.lɛt\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #31,348 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Arlette, with forms such as "alrette", "areltte", and "arlete". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 8 confusable-pair relationships, "arrêté", "arrêtée", "arête", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Arlette, spelled A-R-L-E-T-T-E.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Arlette appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En présence des membres et des conjoints, la présidente Arlette Dodin a donc remis leurs insignes et diplôme à Véronique Lefebvre et Corinne Masson-Préveaudeau.
Comité de rédaction : Arlette Antoine, Michelle Lanois, Nicolas Paintendre, Michel Dumoux, Jean-Claude Carro, Bernard Lièvremont, Robert Aelion, Claude Tournayre, Nathalie Pellen, Caroline Coudrier, Muriel Peromet, Anne Peiny.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- alrette
- areltte
- arlete
- arletet
- arllette
- arltete
- arrlette
- ralette
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Arlette - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
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