Athénaïs
\a.te.na.is\
The verdict
“Athénaïs” is uncommon French (frequency #93,501 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,501
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prénom féminin.
Corpus desk
Index FR-athenais · Athénaïs · French
Athénaïs · rank #93,501 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,501
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assèchent
Nearest frequency peer: assèchent (-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 « Athénaïs »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assaisonne
assaisonne
6,502 corpus weight
- assèchent
assèchent
6,501 corpus weight
- Athénaïs
Athénaïs
6,500 corpus weight
- athérome
athérome
6,499 corpus weight
- attelles
attelles
6,498 corpus weight
- aub
aub
6,497 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Athénaïs » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Athénaïs |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \a.te.na.is\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #93,501 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Athénaïs » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Athénaïs is uncommon French at frequency #93,501 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \a.te.na.is\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prénom féminin.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Athénaïs, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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 carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Athénaïs, spelled A-T-H-É-N-A-Ï-S.
Definition
- 1Prénom féminin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Athénaïs appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Athénaïs Michel, une rencontre de l’université, raconte avoir eu de « longues discussions » avec le député.
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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