Aristophane

\a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\

/\a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\/ name

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The verdict

“Aristophane” is an uncommon French word, ranked #51,277 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.

#51,277
frequency rank, French
11
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Poète comique grec du Vᵉ siècle av. J.-C.

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)

Where “Aristophane” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Aristophane lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Aristophane is 11 letters long, classified as a proper noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\. Corpus data places it at rank #51,277 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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.

This word in other languages

Aristophanes(English)

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.
What language does "Aristophane" come from?
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Using “Aristophane”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-R-I-S-T-O-P-H-A-N-E - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Say it as \a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list