Aldébaran
\al.de.ba.ʁɑ̃\
The verdict
“Aldébaran” is uncommon French (frequency #99,843 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,843
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Étoile la plus brillante de la constellation du Taureau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aldebaran · Aldébaran · French
Aldébaran · rank #99,843 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,843
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alas
Nearest frequency peer: alas (-2 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 « Aldébaran »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aimantés
aimantés
161 corpus weight
- alas
alas
160 corpus weight
- Aldébaran
Aldébaran
158 corpus weight
- alleux
alleux
156 corpus weight
- Allium
Allium
155 corpus weight
- Alpi
Alpi
154 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aldébaran » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aldébaran » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Aldébaran is uncommon French at frequency #99,843 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \al.de.ba.ʁɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "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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