achéménide
\a.ke.me.nid\
The verdict
“achéménide” is uncommon French (frequency #99,824 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,824
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne la dynastie fondatrice de l’ancien empire perse dit « Empire achéménide ».
Corpus desk
Index FR-achemenide · achéménide · French
achéménide · rank #99,824 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,824
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accotements
Nearest frequency peer: accotements (-1 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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « achéménide »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accentuait
accentuait
180 corpus weight
- accentuera
accentuera
179 corpus weight
- accotements
accotements
178 corpus weight
- achéménide
achéménide
177 corpus weight
- acord
acord
176 corpus weight
- acétaminoph…
acétaminophène
174 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « achéménide » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | achéménide |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ke.me.nid\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #99,824 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « achéménide » en français
Rare enough to double-check
achéménide is uncommon French at frequency #99,824 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.ke.me.nid\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui concerne la dynastie fondatrice de l’ancien empire perse dit « Empire achéménide ».".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for achéménide, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is achéménide, spelled A-C-H-É-M-É-N-I-D-E.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne la dynastie fondatrice de l’ancien empire perse dit « Empire achéménide ».
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how achéménide appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Par ces échanges, par ces alliances avec le monde achéménide (où ses ancêtres n’avaient vu qu’une mosaïque de satrapies barbares) Alexandre semait les gènes qui allaient fournir à la Grèce byzantine un nouveau corps dans un nouvel espace.
L’Empire achéménide est le premier des Empires perses à régner sur une grande partie du Moyen-Orient.
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 French corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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