Rastignac
\ʁa.sti.ɲak\
The verdict
“Rastignac” is uncommon French (frequency #76,059 among 5,742 “R” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #76,059
- frequency rank, French
- 5,742
- “R” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Personnage romanesque d’Honoré de Balzac dont les aventures débutent dans Le Père Goriot.
Corpus desk
Index FR-rastignac · Rastignac · French
Rastignac · rank #76,059 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #76,059
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 5,742
- PHOTO-FINISH rajoutait
Nearest frequency peer: rajoutait (-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 « Rastignac »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- questeurs
questeurs
23,947 corpus weight
- racisées
racisées
23,944 corpus weight
- rajoutait
rajoutait
23,943 corpus weight
- Rastignac
Rastignac
23,942 corpus weight
- rayonnants
rayonnants
23,940 corpus weight
- recaser
recaser
23,937 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Rastignac » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Rastignac |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \ʁa.sti.ɲak\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #76,059 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Rastignac » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Rastignac is uncommon French at frequency #76,059 among 5,742 “R” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \ʁa.sti.ɲak\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Personnage romanesque d’Honoré de Balzac dont les aventures débutent dans Le Père Goriot.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Rastignac, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, 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 easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Rastignac, spelled R-A-S-T-I-G-N-A-C.
Definition
- 1Personnage romanesque d’Honoré de Balzac dont les aventures débutent dans Le Père Goriot.
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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