Atatürk
\a.ta.tyʁk\
The verdict
“Atatürk” is uncommon French (frequency #56,428 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,428
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ataturk · Atatürk · French
Atatürk · rank #56,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,428
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH astrologues
Nearest frequency peer: astrologues (-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 « Atatürk »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assyrien
assyrien
43,576 corpus weight
- astreint
astreint
43,575 corpus weight
- astrologues
astrologues
43,574 corpus weight
- Atatürk
Atatürk
43,573 corpus weight
- atone
atone
43,572 corpus weight
- attendrissa…
attendrissant
43,571 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Atatürk » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Atatürk |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.ta.tyʁk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #56,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Atatürk » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Atatürk is uncommon French at frequency #56,428 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.ta.tyʁk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Atatürk in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, 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 Atatürk, spelled A-T-A-T-Ü-R-K.
Definition
- 1Mustafa Kemal Atatürk.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Atatürk appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque la République est proclamée le 29 octobre 1923, Atatürk en est élu le premier président.
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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