Ithaca
The verdict
“Ithaca” is uncommon French (frequency #64,545 among 142,603 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,545
- frequency rank, French
- 142,603
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Ville de l'État de New York, aux États-Unis.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ithaca |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,545 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “Ithaca” sits in French frequency
Rare enough to double-check
Ithaca is uncommon French at frequency #64,545 among 142,603 “I” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville de l'État de New York, aux États-Unis.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for Ithaca in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Ithaca, spelled I-T-H-A-C-A.
Definition
- 1Ville de l'État de New York, aux États-Unis.
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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Using “Ithaca”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is I-T-H-A-C-A - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.