altière
\al.tjɛʁ\
The verdict
“altière” is uncommon French (frequency #99,848 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,848
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin singulier de altier.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altiere · altière · French
altière · rank #99,848 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,848
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Alpi
Nearest frequency peer: Alpi (-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 « altière »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alleux
alleux
156 corpus weight
- Allium
Allium
155 corpus weight
- Alpi
Alpi
154 corpus weight
- altière
altière
153 corpus weight
- Alys
Alys
152 corpus weight
- ambon
ambon
150 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « altière » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altière |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \al.tjɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #99,848 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « altière » en français
Rare enough to double-check
altière is uncommon French at frequency #99,848 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \al.tjɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin singulier de altier.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for altière in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is altière, spelled A-L-T-I-È-R-E.
Definition
- 1Féminin singulier de altier.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how altière appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
rompant avec « l'éternité boursouflée de l'ennui » par une séparation altière, l'aventure s'improvise dans le temps de l'imprévu.
Sanglée de noire, assise à côté de moi sur la banquette arrière, elle garda, durant tout le trajet, la raideur qui convenait aussi bien à une commerçante cossue qu’à une altière condamnée.
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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