astrakhan
\as.tʁa.kɑ̃\
The verdict
“astrakhan” is uncommon French (frequency #92,441 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #92,441
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Variante orthographique de astrakan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-astrakhan · astrakhan · French
astrakhan · rank #92,441 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #92,441
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assisterait
Nearest frequency peer: assisterait (-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 « astrakhan »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- asphyxiée
asphyxiée
7,563 corpus weight
- assaisonnem…
assaisonnements
7,562 corpus weight
- assisterait
assisterait
7,561 corpus weight
- astrakhan
astrakhan
7,560 corpus weight
- astringent
astringent
7,559 corpus weight
- atones
atones
7,558 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « astrakhan » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astrakhan |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.tʁa.kɑ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #92,441 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « astrakhan » en français
Rare enough to double-check
astrakhan is uncommon French at frequency #92,441 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.tʁa.kɑ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Variante orthographique de astrakan.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for astrakhan, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is astrakhan, spelled A-S-T-R-A-K-H-A-N.
Definition
- 1Variante orthographique de astrakan.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how astrakhan appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Et souvent, un même manteau mélange les fourrures, comme dans ce modèle où l’on trouve à la fois astrakhan, renard, vison et chevreau.
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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