altiplano
\al.ti.pla.no\
The verdict
“altiplano” is uncommon French (frequency #84,496 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,496
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Haut plateau dans un pays de langue espagnole.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altiplano · altiplano · French
altiplano · rank #84,496 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,496
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH allèguent
Nearest frequency peer: allèguent (-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 « altiplano »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Allenby
Allenby
15,508 corpus weight
- allow
allow
15,507 corpus weight
- allèguent
allèguent
15,506 corpus weight
- altiplano
altiplano
15,505 corpus weight
- amatrices
amatrices
15,504 corpus weight
- amincissant
amincissant
15,503 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « altiplano » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | altiplano |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \al.ti.pla.no\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #84,496 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « altiplano » en français
Rare enough to double-check
altiplano is uncommon French at frequency #84,496 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \al.ti.pla.no\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Haut plateau dans un pays de langue espagnole.".
altiplano has no tracked misspelling variants, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 altiplano, spelled A-L-T-I-P-L-A-N-O.
Definition
- 1Haut plateau dans un pays de langue espagnole.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how altiplano appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ils vont nous chanter, un truc de là-bas, avec des charengos et du vent de l’altiplano dans les flûtes.
Synonyms
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).