altier
\al.tje\
The verdict
“altier” is uncommon French (frequency #79,037 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,037
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Droit et haut.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altier · altier · French
altier · rank #79,037 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,037
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Altaï
Nearest frequency peer: Altaï (-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 « altier »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- ambassadric…
ambassadrices
20,961 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « altier » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altier |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.tje\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,037 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « altier » en français
Rare enough to double-check
altier is uncommon French at frequency #79,037 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \al.tje\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 4 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for altier in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is altier, spelled A-L-T-I-E-R.
Definition
- 1Droit et haut.
- 2Qui est d’une fierté impérieuse.
- 3Qui marque, dénote, annonce une fierté impérieuse.
- 4Dont la hauteur et la droiture suscitent l’admiration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how altier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un port altier.
Cette jeune fille, si altière au bal du duc de Retz, avait presque en ce moment un regard suppliant.
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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