Aldébaran
\al.de.ba.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“Aldébaran” is an uncommon French word, ranked #99,843 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #99,843
- frequency rank, French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Étoile la plus brillante de la constellation du Taureau.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aldébaran |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.de.ba.ʁɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #99,843 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Aldébaran” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Aldébaran is 9 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \al.de.ba.ʁɑ̃\. Corpus data places it at rank #99,843 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "Étoile la plus brillante de la constellation du Taureau.".
Aldébaran doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
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 Aldébaran, spelled A-L-D-É-B-A-R-A-N.
Definition
- 1Étoile la plus brillante de la constellation du Taureau.
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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Using “Aldébaran”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-L-D-É-B-A-R-A-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \al.de.ba.ʁɑ̃\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.