Astarte
"astarte" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Astarte” is uncommon English (frequency #90,156 among 3,931 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,156
- frequency rank, English
- 3,931
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - A Semitic goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war, cognate in name, origin and function with the goddess Phoenician 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAštart) of Phoenicia.
Corpus desk
Index EN-astarte · Astarte · English
Astarte · rank #90,156 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,156
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 3,931
- PHOTO-FINISH asiago
Nearest frequency peer: asiago (-2 rank slots)
Read with this headword: Spelling guide for this pattern
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.
Long-tail ranks near “Astarte”
Sparse band: bars invert rank so rarer forms read shorter
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9,847 corpus weight
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9,842 corpus weight
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9,840 corpus weight
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9,838 corpus weight
What this shows Long-tail view: where “Astarte” sits against similarly uncommon English ranks.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Astarte |
| Language | English |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,156 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Long-tail rank of “Astarte” in English
Rare enough to double-check
Astarte is uncommon English at frequency #90,156 among 3,931 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "A Semitic goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war, cognate in name, origin and function with the goddess Phoenician 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAštart) of Phoenicia.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for Astarte, a sign its spelling follows regular English conventions. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Etymologically, the entry records: Borrowed from Latin Astarte, ultimately from Phoenician 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAštart) via Ancient Greek Ἀστάρτη (Astártē). Doublet of Ashtoreth and Ishtar. The correct English form is Astarte, spelled A-S-T-A-R-T-E.
Definition
- 1A Semitic goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war, cognate in name, origin and function with the goddess Phoenician 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAštart) of Phoenicia.
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin Astarte, ultimately from Phoenician 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAštart) via Ancient Greek Ἀστάρτη (Astártē). Doublet of Ashtoreth and Ishtar.
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 English corpus, MIT). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.
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