Aristophane

\a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\

/\a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\/ name

The verdict

“Aristophane” is uncommon French (frequency #51,277 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#51,277
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Poète comique grec du Vᵉ siècle av. J.-C.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aristophane · Aristophane · French

Aristophane · rank #51,277 · 0 variants · 0 confusables

  • FREQ-RARE #51,277
  • LEN-MEGA 11 letters
  • VOW-5 5 vowels
  • CONFUS-0 No pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH areas

Nearest frequency peer: areas (-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 « Aristophane »

Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court

corpus weight

What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aristophane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026
Key facts for Aristophane
PropertyValue
HeadwordAristophane
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\
Letters11
Frequency rank#51,277
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Longue queue: rang de « Aristophane » en français

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Aristophanetombe dans cette queue de rareté:

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

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Voisins rares de la même bande: « areas » (#51,276), « Armorique » (#51,278), « arctiques » (#51,275). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Aristophane » est au #51,277. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

Aristophane is uncommon French at frequency #51,277 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Poète comique grec du Vᵉ siècle av. J.-C.".

Aristophane doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Aristophane, spelled A-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-A-N-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Poète comique grec du Vᵉ siècle av. J.-C.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how Aristophane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Il en est de même de Cratinus et d’Eupolis, qui sont rangés, dans le canon alexandrin, parmi les classiques de l’ancienne Comédie, et qui précédèrent, mais d’assez peu, Aristophane. C’étaient, comme Aristophane, des moralistes à leur manière, et qui s’imaginaient aussi rendre de grands services à la chose publique et travailler dans l’intérêt du juste et…

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Aristophane"?
"Aristophane" is spelled A-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-A-N-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\.
What does "Aristophane" mean?
As a proper noun, "Aristophane" means: Poète comique grec du Vᵉ siècle av. J.-C.
How do you pronounce "Aristophane"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Aristophane" is \a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 11 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list