atlante
\a.tlɑ̃t\
The verdict
“atlante” is uncommon French (frequency #90,428 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,428
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Figure d’homme (statue ou buste) qui soutient sur le cou et les épaules une corniche, une tribune, etc.
Corpus desk
Index FR-atlante · atlante · French
atlante · rank #90,428 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,428
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asséchés
Nearest frequency peer: asséchés (-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 « atlante »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- associate
associate
9,576 corpus weight
- assuma
assuma
9,575 corpus weight
- asséchés
asséchés
9,574 corpus weight
- atlante
atlante
9,573 corpus weight
- attachaient
attachaient
9,571 corpus weight
- attendrez
attendrez
9,570 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « atlante » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | atlante |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.tlɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,428 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « atlante » en français
Rare enough to double-check
atlante is uncommon French at frequency #90,428 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.tlɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Figure d’homme (statue ou buste) qui soutient sur le cou et les épaules une corniche, une tribune, etc.".
atlante has no tracked misspelling variants, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is atlante, spelled A-T-L-A-N-T-E.
Definition
- 1Figure d’homme (statue ou buste) qui soutient sur le cou et les épaules une corniche, une tribune, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how atlante appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Louis XlV prouva l’estime qu’il réservait au maître de Toulon, à ce “bûcheur”, qui, avant d’orner ses parcs, avait décoré ses vaisseaux, dans l’orme et le tilleul, de tant d’atlantes, de tritons et de gigantes.
De chacune des colonnes qui séparent les loges jaillit un atlante ou une cariatide, superbe échantillon de sculpture sur bois.
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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