Altkirch
\alt.kiʁʃ\
The verdict
“Altkirch” is uncommon French (frequency #74,542 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,542
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Commune française, située dans le département du Haut-Rhin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altkirch · Altkirch · French
Altkirch · rank #74,542 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,542
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH alphas
Nearest frequency peer: alphas (-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 « Altkirch »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- alopécie
alopécie
25,462 corpus weight
- alourdie
alourdie
25,461 corpus weight
- alphas
alphas
25,460 corpus weight
- Altkirch
Altkirch
25,459 corpus weight
- Amiot
Amiot
25,457 corpus weight
- amoral
amoral
25,456 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Altkirch » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Altkirch |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \alt.kiʁʃ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #74,542 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Altkirch » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Altkirch is uncommon French at frequency #74,542 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \alt.kiʁʃ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for Altkirch in our index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Altkirch, spelled A-L-T-K-I-R-C-H.
Definition
- 1Commune française, située dans le département du Haut-Rhin.
- 2Canton français, situé dans le département du Haut-Rhin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Altkirch appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’état-major avait trouvé Altkirch libre. Pas de Prussiens encore.
À Altkirch, nous nous sommes arrêtés pour boire de la bière, dans un petit café au bord de la route. Il y avait près de nous deux vieux Alsaciens qui parlaient patois et je ne comprenais pas grand-chose à ce qu’ils disaient, mais j’écoutais malgré tout avec ce plaisir bizarre que j’ai toujours pris à entendre des paroles humaines dans une langue qui ne m’…
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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