Aristophanes
/æɹɪsˈtɒfəniːz/
"aristophanes" is a 12-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Aristophanes” is an uncommon English word, ranked #60,627 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #60,627
- frequency rank, English
- 12
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - An Ancient Greek male name, most famously borne by a playwright who lived from circa 446 BC to circa 386 BC.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aristophanes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /æɹɪsˈtɒfəniːz/ |
| Letters | 12 |
| Frequency rank | #60,627 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Aristophanes” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Aristophanes is 12 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as /æɹɪsˈtɒfəniːz/. Corpus data places it at rank #60,627 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "An Ancient Greek male name, most famously borne by a playwright who lived from circa 446 BC to circa 386 BC.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Aristophanes in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. Our dataset records no confusable match here, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin Aristophanēs, from the Ancient Greek Ἀριστοφᾰ́νης (Aristophắnēs). The correct English form is Aristophanes, spelled A-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-A-N-E-S.
Definition
- 1An Ancient Greek male name, most famously borne by a playwright who lived from circa 446 BC to circa 386 BC.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Aristophanēs, from the Ancient Greek Ἀριστοφᾰ́νης (Aristophắnēs).
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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Using “Aristophanes”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-A-N-E-S - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as /æɹɪsˈtɒfəniːz/ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.