Atalanta
"atalanta" is a 8-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Atalanta” is uncommon English (frequency #52,157 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #52,157
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A huntress and heroine in Greek mythology, renowned for her great speed and strength; depending on the version of the myth, either the daughter of Iasus (a prince of Arcadia) by Clymene or of King ...
Corpus desk
Index EN-atalanta · Atalanta · English
Atalanta · rank #52,157 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #52,157
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH astringent
Nearest frequency peer: astringent (-1 rank slots)
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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 “Atalanta”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
- Arbroath
Arbroath
47,847 corpus weight
- astringent
astringent
47,845 corpus weight
- Atalanta
Atalanta
47,844 corpus weight
- athenaeum
athenaeum
47,843 corpus weight
- atropine
atropine
47,842 corpus weight
- attentively
attentively
47,841 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Atalanta” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Atalanta |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #52,157 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Atalanta” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Atalanta is uncommon English at frequency #52,157 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for Atalanta in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Learned borrowing from Latin Atalanta, from Ancient Greek Ἀταλάντη (Atalántē, “balanced”), from ἀ- (a-, “used to express unity”) + τάλαντον (tálanton, “balanced”). The correct English form is Atalanta, spelled A-T-A-L-A-N-T-A.
Definition
- 1A huntress and heroine in Greek mythology, renowned for her great speed and strength; depending on the version of the myth, either the daughter of Iasus (a prince of Arcadia) by Clymene or of King Schoeneus of Boeotia.
- 2The main belt asteroid 36 Atalante.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Atalanta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
It is the Arcadian Atalanta, the daughter of Iasus and Clymene, who is primarily known from the tales of the Calydonian boar hunt and the Argonauts. The Boeotian version of Atalanta is the daughter of King Schoeneus and is primarily noted for her skill in the footrace. In both versions of the myth, Atalanta was a local figure allied to the goddess Artemis…
Abandoned at birth by her parents, Iasus and Clymene, Atalanta was raised by bears and later rescued by a hunter who taught her the ways of mortals. When Atalanta found fame as a runner and marksman, her parents reclaimed her.
Etymology
Learned borrowing from Latin Atalanta, from Ancient Greek Ἀταλάντη (Atalántē, “balanced”), from ἀ- (a-, “used to express unity”) + τάλαντον (tálanton, “balanced”).
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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Frequency-ranked English headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).