Albane
\al.ban\
The verdict
“Albane” is uncommon French (frequency #64,914 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,914
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-albane · Albane · French
Albane · rank #64,914 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,914
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alaouite
Nearest frequency peer: alaouite (-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 « Albane »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agnel
agnel
35,091 corpus weight
- agricultures
agricultures
35,090 corpus weight
- alaouite
alaouite
35,088 corpus weight
- Albane
Albane
35,087 corpus weight
- albertaine
albertaine
35,086 corpus weight
- alchimique
alchimique
35,084 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Albane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Albane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.ban\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,914 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Albane » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Albane is uncommon French at frequency #64,914 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \al.ban\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Albane, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Albane, spelled A-L-B-A-N-E.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Albane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À deux pas du carrefour Pasteur-Magenta, le salon de coiffure Camille Albane s’est agrandi !
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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