Alcibiade
\al.si.bjad\
The verdict
“Alcibiade” is uncommon French (frequency #68,024 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,024
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Homme d’État et général athénien, dans la Grèce antique, qui fut disciple, ami et amant occasionnel de Socrate.
Corpus desk
Index FR-alcibiade · Alcibiade · French
Alcibiade · rank #68,024 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,024
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Alessio
Nearest frequency peer: Alessio (+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 « Alcibiade »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- agrégées
agrégées
31,980 corpus weight
- agrémentées
agrémentées
31,979 corpus weight
- Alcibiade
Alcibiade
31,977 corpus weight
- Alessio
Alessio
31,976 corpus weight
- algonquin
algonquin
31,975 corpus weight
- alii
alii
31,974 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Alcibiade » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Alcibiade |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.si.bjad\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #68,024 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Alcibiade » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Alcibiade is uncommon French at frequency #68,024 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \al.si.bjad\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Homme d’État et général athénien, dans la Grèce antique, qui fut disciple, ami et amant occasionnel de Socrate.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Alcibiade, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Alcibiade, spelled A-L-C-I-B-I-A-D-E.
Definition
- 1Homme d’État et général athénien, dans la Grèce antique, qui fut disciple, ami et amant occasionnel de Socrate.
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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