Aztèque
\az.tɛk\
The verdict
“Aztèque” is uncommon French (frequency #50,072 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #50,072
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Membre du peuple aztèque.
Corpus desk
Index FR-azteque · Aztèque · French
Aztèque · rank #50,072 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #50,072
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH autoradio
Nearest frequency peer: autoradio (-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 « Aztèque »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Athénien
Athénien
49,932 corpus weight
- attrapa
attrapa
49,931 corpus weight
- autoradio
autoradio
49,930 corpus weight
- Aztèque
Aztèque
49,929 corpus weight
- babies
babies
49,928 corpus weight
- babtou
babtou
49,927 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Aztèque » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Aztèque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \az.tɛk\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #50,072 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Aztèque » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Aztèque is uncommon French at frequency #50,072 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \az.tɛk\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Aztèque has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, 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 Aztèque, spelled A-Z-T-È-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Membre du peuple aztèque.
- 2Idiot.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Aztèque appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Il reçoit au même titre le fantôme d’un Aztèque, un souvenir d’enfance, une chose vue hier en Inde ou lue aujourd’hui à Paris.
Enfin, bon, j’ai tellement râlé, à la maison, que les profs étaient des aztèques et des dégénérés (dégénéré, c’était le mot à la mode), que j’en avais archimarre de perdre mon temps à des conneries (je faisais l’école buissonnière au moins deux jours par semaine, pas par plaisir mais à cause de devoirs que je pouvais pas rendre parce que pas faits, ce qui…
Synonyms
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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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).