Antarès
\ɑ̃.ta.ʁɛs\
The verdict
“Antarès” is uncommon French (frequency #79,925 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,925
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom d’une étoile fixe de la première grandeur, qui est dans le cœur du Scorpion.
Corpus desk
Index FR-antares · Antarès · French
Antarès · rank #79,925 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,925
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH anormalité
Nearest frequency peer: anormalité (-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 « Antarès »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Andilly
Andilly
20,080 corpus weight
- Andronic
Andronic
20,079 corpus weight
- anormalité
anormalité
20,077 corpus weight
- Antarès
Antarès
20,076 corpus weight
- anthem
anthem
20,075 corpus weight
- anticommuni…
anticommunisme
20,073 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Antarès » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Antarès |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɑ̃.ta.ʁɛs\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #79,925 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Antarès » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Antarès is uncommon French at frequency #79,925 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɑ̃.ta.ʁɛs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom d’une étoile fixe de la première grandeur, qui est dans le cœur du Scorpion.".
No misspelling variants are generated for Antarès in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Antarès, spelled A-N-T-A-R-È-S.
Definition
- 1Nom d’une étoile fixe de la première grandeur, qui est dans le cœur du Scorpion.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Antarès appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Antarès eſt auſſi au Sud au ſommet d’un triangle qu’elle forme avec Vega et Arcturus.
Synonyms
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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