Artaxerxes
/ˌɑːtə(ɡ)ˈzɜːksiːz/
"artaxerxes" is a 10-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Artaxerxes” is uncommon English (frequency #92,348 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,348
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - The name of several Achaemenid kings of Persia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-artaxerxes · Artaxerxes · English
Artaxerxes · rank #92,348 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,348
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH ARPANET
Nearest frequency peer: ARPANET (-1 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Artaxerxes”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Arbogast
Arbogast
7,658 corpus weight
- arche
arche
7,657 corpus weight
- ARPANET
ARPANET
7,654 corpus weight
- Artaxerxes
Artaxerxes
7,653 corpus weight
- artless
artless
7,651 corpus weight
- Asaf
Asaf
7,650 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Artaxerxes” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Artaxerxes |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | /ˌɑːtə(ɡ)ˈzɜːksiːz/ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #92,348 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Artaxerxes” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Artaxerxes is uncommon English at frequency #92,348 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed /ˌɑːtə(ɡ)ˈzɜːksiːz/. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "The name of several Achaemenid kings of Persia.".
Artaxerxes has no tracked misspelling variants, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
Etymologically, the entry records: From Latin Artaxerxēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀρταξέρξης (Artaxérxēs), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎫𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎠 (a-r-t-x-š-ç-a /R̥taxšaçāʰ/, “whose rule is through truth”). Akin to Old Armenian Արտաշէս (Artašēs) and Persian اردشیر (ardašir). The correct English form is Artaxerxes, spelled A-R-T-A-X-E-R-X-E-S.
Definition
- 1The name of several Achaemenid kings of Persia.
Etymology
From Latin Artaxerxēs, from Ancient Greek Ἀρταξέρξης (Artaxérxēs), from Old Persian 𐎠𐎼𐎫𐎧𐏁𐏂𐎠 (a-r-t-x-š-ç-a /R̥taxšaçāʰ/, “whose rule is through truth”). Akin to Old Armenian Արտաշէս (Artašēs) and Persian اردشیر (ardašir).
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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