ataxie
\a.tak.si\
The verdict
“ataxie” is uncommon French (frequency #75,419 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #75,419
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Désordre morbide des fonctions nerveuses, caractérisé surtout par le manque de coordination des mouvements volontaires.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ataxie · ataxie · French
ataxie · rank #75,419 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #75,419
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atar
Nearest frequency peer: atar (-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 « ataxie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assistais
assistais
24,585 corpus weight
- asymptomati…
asymptomatiques
24,584 corpus weight
- atar
atar
24,583 corpus weight
- ataxie
ataxie
24,582 corpus weight
- attroupemen…
attroupements
24,581 corpus weight
- Augsburg
Augsburg
24,579 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ataxie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ataxie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tak.si\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #75,419 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ataxie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ataxie is uncommon French at frequency #75,419 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.tak.si\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Désordre morbide des fonctions nerveuses, caractérisé surtout par le manque de coordination des mouvements volontaires.".
ataxie has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, 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 ataxie, spelled A-T-A-X-I-E.
Definition
- 1Désordre morbide des fonctions nerveuses, caractérisé surtout par le manque de coordination des mouvements volontaires.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ataxie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il était allé piquer Lafouasse, le cabaretier, dont l’ataxie avait fait brusquement de tels progrès, qu’il le jugeait perdu.
Élégante, verte et safran, remorquant Maugis qui traîne la jambe, déjà touché par l’ataxie, — Marthe vient vers nous.
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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