athlé
\a.tle\
The verdict
“athlé” is uncommon French (frequency #64,939 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,939
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Athlétisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-athle · athlé · French
athlé · rank #64,939 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,939
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assayas
Nearest frequency peer: assayas (-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 « athlé »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Ashby
Ashby
35,065 corpus weight
- Assam
Assam
35,064 corpus weight
- assayas
assayas
35,063 corpus weight
- athlé
athlé
35,062 corpus weight
- ato
ato
35,061 corpus weight
- attaquante
attaquante
35,060 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « athlé » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | athlé |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tle\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,939 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « athlé » en français
Rare enough to double-check
athlé is uncommon French at frequency #64,939 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.tle\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Athlétisme.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for athlé, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, 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 athlé, spelled A-T-H-L-É.
Definition
- 1Athlétisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how athlé appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Après les championnats d'Europe d’athlé, c’est au tour des nageurs de rêver aux médailles lors de l’Euro 2010 de natation, qui s’ouvre mercredi à Budapest.
J’ai été pas mal de fois dans cette situation où l’athlé n’avait pas de très bons résultats, tu arrives et on te dis que tu es le sauveur.
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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