Electra
\e.lɛk.tʁa\
The verdict
“Electra” is uncommon French (frequency #62,240 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #62,240
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de la compagnie des eaux et d’électricité du Cap-Vert.
Corpus desk
Index FR-electra · Electra · French
Electra · rank #62,240 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #62,240
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH Elche
Nearest frequency peer: Elche (-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 « Electra »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ecclésiale
ecclésiale
37,764 corpus weight
- efi
efi
37,763 corpus weight
- Elche
Elche
37,762 corpus weight
- Electra
Electra
37,761 corpus weight
- Elkabbach
Elkabbach
37,760 corpus weight
- Eloge
Eloge
37,759 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Electra » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Electra |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \e.lɛk.tʁa\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #62,240 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Electra » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Electra is uncommon French at frequency #62,240 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \e.lɛk.tʁa\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Electra, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is Electra, spelled E-L-E-C-T-R-A.
Definition
- 1Nom de la compagnie des eaux et d’électricité du Cap-Vert.
- 2Nom du plus haut immeuble résidentiel de San Diego en Californie.
- 3Lockheed L-12 Electra Junior, bimoteur du constructeur aéronautique américain Lockheed.
- 4Lockheed L-188 Electra, quadriturbopropulseur du constructeur aéronautique américain Lockheed.
- 5Super-vilaine de DC Comics, ennemie de Superman.
- 6Titre d’un film de Julian Grant, sorti en 1996.
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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