Andromaque
\ɑ̃.dʁo.mak\
The verdict
“Andromaque” is uncommon French (frequency #50,635 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,635
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Femme d’Hector durant la guerre de Troie, fille d’Éétion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-andromaque · Andromaque · French
Andromaque · rank #50,635 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,635
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH analgésiques
Nearest frequency peer: analgésiques (-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 « Andromaque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ammar
Ammar
49,369 corpus weight
- Amphibie
Amphibie
49,368 corpus weight
- analgésiques
analgésiques
49,367 corpus weight
- Andromaque
Andromaque
49,366 corpus weight
- anglican
anglican
49,365 corpus weight
- ANPE
ANPE
49,364 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Andromaque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Andromaque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.dʁo.mak\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #50,635 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Andromaque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Andromaque is uncommon French at frequency #50,635 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɑ̃.dʁo.mak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Andromaque, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is Andromaque, spelled A-N-D-R-O-M-A-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Femme d’Hector durant la guerre de Troie, fille d’Éétion.
- 2(175) Andromaque, internationalement (175) Andromache, planète mineure de la ceinture principale.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Andromaque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Andromaque était belle et toujours touchante, comme il se doit (en réalité, c’était une tigresse qui avait fait tuer un enfant à la place de son fils).
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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