Ishtar
\iʃ.taʁ\
The verdict
“Ishtar” is uncommon French (frequency #79,431 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,431
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Déesse chez les Assyriens et les Babyloniens.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ishtar · Ishtar · French
Ishtar · rank #79,431 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,431
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH isolationnisme
Nearest frequency peer: isolationnisme (+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 « Ishtar »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- invectiver
invectiver
20,574 corpus weight
- inégalitair…
inégalitaires
20,573 corpus weight
- IPP
IPP
20,572 corpus weight
- Ishtar
Ishtar
20,570 corpus weight
- isolationni…
isolationnisme
20,569 corpus weight
- isotrope
isotrope
20,568 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ishtar » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ishtar |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \iʃ.taʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #79,431 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ishtar » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ishtar is uncommon French at frequency #79,431 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \iʃ.taʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Déesse chez les Assyriens et les Babyloniens.".
Ishtar doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is Ishtar, spelled I-S-H-T-A-R.
Definition
- 1Déesse chez les Assyriens et les Babyloniens.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ishtar appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ishtar intervient mainte fois de cette manière pour réconforter Assurbanipal aux moments critiques. Une nuit même le songe fut collectif, il ne fut pas nécessaire de recourir aux prêtres pour en connaître l’interprétation.
This word in other languages
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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