Électre

/\e.lɛktʁ\/ name

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\.

Key facts for Électre
PropertyValue
HeadwordÉlectre
LanguageFrench
Part of speechName
IPA\e.lɛktʁ\
Letters7
Frequency rank#84,456
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of Électre in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Membre de la famille des Atrides, fille d’Agamemnon, sœur d’Oreste et d’Iphigénie.
  2. 2
    Une des sept Pléiades, mère de Dardanos.
  3. 3
    Une Océanide, mère d’Iris, Arcé et des Harpies.
  4. 4
    Une Danaïde, fille de Danaos et de Polyxo, qui tua son époux Péristhène.
  5. 5
    En mythologie grecque, fille d’Agénor, sœur de Cadmos.
  6. 6
    En mythologie grecque, suivante d’Hélène de Troie.
  7. 7
    En mythologie grecque, fille de Latinos (ou Latinus).
  8. 8
    Une des plus grosses étoiles de l’amas des Pléiades, dans la constellation du Taureau.
  9. 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

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Électre"?
"Électre" is spelled É-L-E-C-T-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \e.lɛktʁ\.
What does "Électre" mean?
As a name, "Électre" means: Membre de la famille des Atrides, fille d’Agamemnon, sœur d’Oreste et d’Iphigénie.
How do you pronounce "Électre"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Électre" is \e.lɛktʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Électre" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.