Altona
The verdict
“Altona” is uncommon French (frequency #95,526 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,526
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Quartier de Hambourg.
Corpus desk
Index FR-altona · Altona · French
Altona · rank #95,526 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,526
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Alphonsine
Nearest frequency peer: Alphonsine (-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 « Altona »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aliénations
aliénations
4,479 corpus weight
- alon
alon
4,477 corpus weight
- Alphonsine
Alphonsine
4,476 corpus weight
- Altona
Altona
4,475 corpus weight
- amide
amide
4,472 corpus weight
- amoris
amoris
4,471 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Altona » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Altona |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #95,526 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Altona » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Altona is uncommon French at frequency #95,526 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Quartier de Hambourg.".
Altona doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
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 Altona, spelled A-L-T-O-N-A.
Definition
- 1Quartier de Hambourg.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Altona appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
En 1830, la compagnie d’Altona armait à elle seule trente navires pour la pêche du hareng, et quatre ans avant, en 1826, le registre d’Aalborg avait constaté, pour cette ville seule, une exportation de 60,500 barils de harengs salés.
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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