Aquitain
\a.ki.tɛ̃\
The verdict
“Aquitain” is uncommon French (frequency #62,047 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,047
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personne habitant de la région d’Aquitaine ou qui en provient.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aquitain · Aquitain · French
Aquitain · rank #62,047 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,047
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aquifères
Nearest frequency peer: aquifères (-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 « Aquitain »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- appuyons
appuyons
37,957 corpus weight
- apud
apud
37,956 corpus weight
- aquifères
aquifères
37,955 corpus weight
- Aquitain
Aquitain
37,954 corpus weight
- aran
aran
37,953 corpus weight
- arbrisseau
arbrisseau
37,952 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aquitain » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aquitain |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ki.tɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #62,047 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aquitain » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Aquitain is uncommon French at frequency #62,047 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.ki.tɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Aquitain doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Aquitain, spelled A-Q-U-I-T-A-I-N.
Definition
- 1Personne habitant de la région d’Aquitaine ou qui en provient.
- 2Personne appartenant à l’ensemble des tribus proto-basques de l’Antiquité comprise entre les Pyrénées occidentales, la rive gauche de la Garonne et l’océan Atlantique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Aquitain appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
À moins d’une lieue de Vendœuvres, en allant sur le marais de Bellebouche, au lieu dit « le button aux fades », une famille d’hommes libres, venant de la région d’Erfurt, a été pourvue par notre souverain d’un domaine, en remplacement d’Aquitains qui avaient péri pendant la guerre, il y a cela plus de vingt ans.
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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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