Altaï
\al.taj\
The verdict
“Altaï” is uncommon French (frequency #79,036 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,036
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Zone montagneuse comprise entre la Russie, la Chine (province du Xinjiang), la Mongolie et le Kazakhstan et où les grandes rivières Irtych et Ob prennent leur source.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altai · Altaï · French
Altaï · rank #79,036 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,036
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alphabétiques
Nearest frequency peer: alphabétiques (-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 « Altaï »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alourdissent
alourdissent
20,968 corpus weight
- alphabétiqu…
alphabétiques
20,966 corpus weight
- Altaï
Altaï
20,965 corpus weight
- altier
altier
20,964 corpus weight
- altérant
altérant
20,963 corpus weight
- Alvar
Alvar
20,962 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Altaï » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Altaï |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \al.taj\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,036 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Altaï » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Altaï is uncommon French at frequency #79,036 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \al.taj\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Altaï doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Altaï, spelled A-L-T-A-Ï.
Definition
- 1Zone montagneuse comprise entre la Russie, la Chine (province du Xinjiang), la Mongolie et le Kazakhstan et où les grandes rivières Irtych et Ob prennent leur source.
- 2République, sujet de la fédération de Russie.
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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