Most used nickname
- Input
- Alice
- Expected output
- Ali
First entry under "alice" in the curated dictionary.
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nicknames for Alice
Alice comes from Germanic, via French and means "nobility". It is a feminine name carried by 192,260 Brazilians in the 2010 census, and its most common nickname is Ali, followed by Alicinha.
First entry under "alice" in the curated dictionary.
2 syllables against the full name's 3.
The rule picks between -inha and -zinha based on how "Alice" ends.
It uses a hybrid engine: it first checks curated dictionaries of real, documented nicknames in Portuguese and English, then applies linguistic rules for truncation (apocope and aphaeresis), diminutives, augmentatives and compound names, which work even for names that aren't in any dictionary.
It is "Ali". After it come Alicinha, all documented in the curated dictionary.
Alice is of Germanic, via French origin and literally means "nobility". The meaning does not change the nicknames, but it explains the name's shape, and shape decides the cut: from "Alice" usage drew "Ali" as the minimal version and "Alicinha" as the longest.
The 2010 IBGE census recorded 192,260 people with this name, about one in every 992 inhabitants. The IBGE series was still rising in the last decade measured, 2000 to 2010.
Yes. The lookup ignores accents and letter case, so alternative spellings of Alice reach the same entry. What does change the result is the selected gender, since it decides which diminutive suffix is applied (-inha/-zinha).
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