Adige
\a.diʒ\
The verdict
“Adige” is uncommon French (frequency #55,717 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #55,717
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fleuve d’Italie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-adige · Adige · French
Adige · rank #55,717 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #55,717
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adaptatif
Nearest frequency peer: adaptatif (-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 « Adige »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- accusateurs
accusateurs
44,287 corpus weight
- acoustic
acoustic
44,286 corpus weight
- adaptatif
adaptatif
44,285 corpus weight
- Adige
Adige
44,284 corpus weight
- admette
admette
44,283 corpus weight
- admettra
admettra
44,282 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Adige » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Adige |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.diʒ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #55,717 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Adige » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Adige is uncommon French at frequency #55,717 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.diʒ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fleuve d’Italie.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Adige in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Adige, spelled A-D-I-G-E.
Definition
- 1Fleuve d’Italie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Adige appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’Adige, — est-il besoin de le dire ? — est la rivière qui passe à Vérone.
Il résolut donc de faire sa principale attaque par la plaine, et d'arriver sur l'Adige par le Véronais, le Vicentin et le Padouan.
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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