Elster
\ɛl.stɛʁ\
The verdict
“Elster” is uncommon French (frequency #81,114 among 3,255 “E” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,114
- frequency rank, French
- 3,255
- “E” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom courant en France de l'Elster Blanche, rivière d'Allemagne prenant sa source en Tchéquie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-elster · Elster · French
Elster · rank #81,114 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,114
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,255
- PHOTO-FINISH embarquera
Nearest frequency peer: embarquera (+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 « Elster »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Edda
Edda
18,891 corpus weight
- Elster
Elster
18,887 corpus weight
- embarquera
embarquera
18,886 corpus weight
- encaissemen…
encaissements
18,884 corpus weight
- encastrées
encastrées
18,883 corpus weight
- encerclées
encerclées
18,882 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Elster » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Elster |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ɛl.stɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #81,114 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Elster » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Elster is uncommon French at frequency #81,114 among 3,255 “E” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ɛl.stɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom courant en France de l'Elster Blanche, rivière d'Allemagne prenant sa source en Tchéquie.".
Elster doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is Elster, spelled E-L-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Nom courant en France de l'Elster Blanche, rivière d'Allemagne prenant sa source en Tchéquie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Elster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Elle voit toujours les Polonais d’après la gravure de Poniatowski sautant dans l’Elster, car pour toute la France l’Elster, où il est impossible de se noyer, est un fleuve impétueux qui a englouti Poniatowski...
Et Poniatowski à Leipzig avait préféré disparaître dans les eaux de l'Elster.
Synonyms
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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