Astarte
"astarte" is a 7-letter English headword indexed on PlainSpell.
The verdict
“Astarte” is an uncommon English word, ranked #90,156 in English word frequency and used as a proper noun.
- #90,156
- frequency rank, English
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - A Semitic goddess of fertility, sexuality, and war, cognate in name, origin and function with the goddess Phoenician 𐤏𐤔𐤕𐤓𐤕 (ʿAštart) of Phoenicia.
| 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) |
Where “Astarte” sits in English frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The English entry for Astarte is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #90,156 in overall English word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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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Using “Astarte”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct English spelling is A-S-T-A-R-T-E - 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.