Ithaca
The verdict
“Ithaca” is uncommon French (frequency #64,545 among 3,561 “I” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,545
- frequency rank, French
- 3,561
- “I” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville de l'État de New York, aux États-Unis.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ithaca · Ithaca · French
Ithaca · rank #64,545 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,545
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,561
- PHOTO-FINISH irrigue
Nearest frequency peer: irrigue (-2 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 « Ithaca »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Iroise
Iroise
35,460 corpus weight
- irrespectue…
irrespectueuse
35,459 corpus weight
- irrigue
irrigue
35,458 corpus weight
- Ithaca
Ithaca
35,456 corpus weight
- jacquemart
jacquemart
35,454 corpus weight
- Janette
Janette
35,453 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ithaca » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ithaca » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ithaca is uncommon French at frequency #64,545 among 3,561 “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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ithaca appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Au retour d’un job à Syracuse, entre parenthèses New York, elle a fait un léger détour par Ithaca pour rendre visite à son oncle.
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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