Almaty
\al.ma.ti\
The verdict
“Almaty” is uncommon French (frequency #66,479 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #66,479
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville et ancienne capitale du Kazakhstan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-almaty · Almaty · French
Almaty · rank #66,479 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #66,479
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH altermondiali…
Nearest frequency peer: altermondialistes (+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 « Almaty »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- albano
albano
33,525 corpus weight
- Algernon
Algernon
33,524 corpus weight
- Almaty
Almaty
33,522 corpus weight
- altermondia…
altermondialistes
33,521 corpus weight
- amenaient
amenaient
33,520 corpus weight
- amenuise
amenuise
33,519 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Almaty » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Almaty |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.ma.ti\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #66,479 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Almaty » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Almaty is uncommon French at frequency #66,479 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \al.ma.ti\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Almaty in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Almaty, spelled A-L-M-A-T-Y.
Definition
- 1Ville et ancienne capitale du Kazakhstan.
- 2Anciennement, gouvernement kazakh.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Almaty appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La raison officielle [du déplacement de la capitale] tient à des motifs géologiques et urbanistiques : située dans une zone sensible aux séismes, qui plus est très proche de la nouvelle frontière avec le Kirghizistan, l’ancienne capitale d’Almaty n’a plus les capacités de se développer comme elle le doit. — (Mikal Hem, Et si je devenais dictateur, traduit…
Le mouvement de colère, qui avait éclaté dimanche dans une ville de province après une hausse des prix du gaz, s'est étendu à Almaty, capitale économique et plus grande ville du pays, dans la nuit de mardi à mercredi.
Synonyms
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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