Électre
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#84,456
in French word usage
Misspellings
0
tracked variants
Confusables
0
similar word pairs
Électre is aFrenchname. It means: Membre de la famille des Atrides, fille d’Agamemnon, sœur d’Oreste et d’Iphigénie. Pronounced \e.lɛktʁ\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Électre |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \e.lɛktʁ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #84,456 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Électre is 7 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \e.lɛktʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #84,456 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 9 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for Électre in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Électre, spelled É-L-E-C-T-R-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Membre de la famille des Atrides, fille d’Agamemnon, sœur d’Oreste et d’Iphigénie.
- 2Une des sept Pléiades, mère de Dardanos.
- 3Une Océanide, mère d’Iris, Arcé et des Harpies.
- 4Une Danaïde, fille de Danaos et de Polyxo, qui tua son époux Péristhène.
- 5En mythologie grecque, fille d’Agénor, sœur de Cadmos.
- 6En mythologie grecque, suivante d’Hélène de Troie.
- 7En mythologie grecque, fille de Latinos (ou Latinus).
- 8Une des plus grosses étoiles de l’amas des Pléiades, dans la constellation du Taureau.
- 9(130) Électre, internationalement (130) Elektra, un astéroïde de la ceinture principale découvert par Christian Peters le 17 février 1873.
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Frequency rank: #84,456 in French
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