Aquitaine

\a.ki.tɛn\

/\a.ki.tɛn\/ name

The verdict

“Aquitaine” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #8,068. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#8,068
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ancienne région administrative française composée de cinq départements : la Dordogne, la Gironde, les Landes, le Lot-et-Garonne et les Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Elle fusionne le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2016 avec l...

Corpus desk

Index FR-aquitaine · Aquitaine · French

Aquitaine · rank #8,068 · 11 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #8,068
  • LEN-LONG 9 letters
  • VOW-6 6 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH apportent

Nearest frequency peer: apportent (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « Aquitaine »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Aquitaine » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Aquitaine
PropertyValue
HeadwordAquitaine
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.ki.tɛn\
Letters9
Frequency rank#8,068
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Aquitaine »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Aquitainese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « apportent » (#8,067), « ambitions » (#8,066), « bagarre » (#8,070). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Aquitaine » est au #8,068. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Aquitaine (IPA \a.ki.tɛn\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #8,068 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Ancienne région administrative française composée de cinq départements : la Dordogne, la Gironde, les Landes, le Lot-et-Garonne et les Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Elle fusionne le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2016 avec l...".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Aquitaine, with forms such as "aqiutaine", "aqquitaine", and "aquiatine". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Aquitaine, spelled A-Q-U-I-T-A-I-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Ancienne région administrative française composée de cinq départements : la Dordogne, la Gironde, les Landes, le Lot-et-Garonne et les Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Elle fusionne le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2016 avec les régions Limousin et Poitou-Charentes pour former la région Aquitaine-Limousin-Poitou-Charentes.

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • aqiutaine
  • aqquitaine
  • aquiatine
  • aquitaien
  • aquitainne
  • aquitanie
  • aquitiane
  • aquittaine
  • aqutiaine
  • auqitaine
  • qauitaine

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Aquitaine - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

aqiutaine2aqquitaine1aquiatine2aquitaien2aquitainne1aquitanie2aquitiane2aquittaine1
Edit distance from "Aquitaine"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Aquitaine"?
"Aquitaine" is spelled A-Q-U-I-T-A-I-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ki.tɛn\.
What does "Aquitaine" mean?
As a proper noun, "Aquitaine" means: Ancienne région administrative française composée de cinq départements : la Dordogne, la Gironde, les Landes, le Lot-et-Garonne et les Pyrénées-Atlantiques. Elle fusionne le 1ᵉʳ janvier 2016 avec l...
What are common misspellings of "Aquitaine"?
Common misspellings include "aqiutaine", "aqquitaine", "aquiatine", "aquitaien", "aquitainne". The correct spelling is "Aquitaine".
How do you pronounce "Aquitaine"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Aquitaine" is \a.ki.tɛn\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Aquitaine" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Aquitaine", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list