Aristophane
\a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\
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
- arborait
arborait
48,728 corpus weight
- archiduches…
archiduchesse
48,727 corpus weight
- arctiques
arctiques
48,726 corpus weight
- areas
areas
48,725 corpus weight
- Aristophane
Aristophane
48,724 corpus weight
- Armorique
Armorique
48,723 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aristophane » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aristophane |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ʁis.tɔ.fan\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #51,277 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aristophane » en français
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
- 1Poète comique grec du Vᵉ siècle av. J.-C.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Aristophane appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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