Iskander
\is.kɑ̃.deʁ\
The verdict
“Iskander” is uncommon French (frequency #84,917 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #84,917
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Système russe de missile balistique.
Corpus desk
Index FR-iskander · Iskander · French
Iskander · rank #84,917 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #84,917
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH islamologue
Nearest frequency peer: islamologue (+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 « Iskander »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- inventoriés
inventoriés
15,090 corpus weight
- Ipswich
Ipswich
15,088 corpus weight
- irréalité
irréalité
15,086 corpus weight
- Iskander
Iskander
15,084 corpus weight
- islamologue
islamologue
15,083 corpus weight
- jacinthes
jacinthes
15,080 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Iskander » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Iskander |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \is.kɑ̃.deʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #84,917 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Iskander » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Iskander is uncommon French at frequency #84,917 among 3,561 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \is.kɑ̃.deʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Système russe de missile balistique.".
Iskander doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Iskander, spelled I-S-K-A-N-D-E-R.
Definition
- 1Système russe de missile balistique.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Iskander appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L'objectif principal des systèmes de missiles Iskander est la destruction des systèmes ennemis de défense antiaérienne et de défense antimissile, ainsi que des objectifs plus importants, à des distances allant jusqu'à 500 km.
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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