aphasie
\a.fa.zi\
The verdict
“aphasie” is uncommon French (frequency #54,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #54,398
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Trouble cognitif affectant l’expression ou la compréhension du langage parlé ou écrit.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aphasie · aphasie · French
aphasie · rank #54,398 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #54,398
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH antigènes
Nearest frequency peer: antigènes (-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 « aphasie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Aniston
Aniston
45,606 corpus weight
- anja
anja
45,605 corpus weight
- antigènes
antigènes
45,604 corpus weight
- aphasie
aphasie
45,603 corpus weight
- apocryphes
apocryphes
45,602 corpus weight
- approuvez
approuvez
45,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aphasie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aphasie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.fa.zi\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #54,398 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aphasie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aphasie is uncommon French at frequency #54,398 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.fa.zi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Trouble cognitif affectant l’expression ou la compréhension du langage parlé ou écrit.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aphasie in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aphasie, spelled A-P-H-A-S-I-E.
Definition
- 1Trouble cognitif affectant l’expression ou la compréhension du langage parlé ou écrit.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aphasie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Travailleur acharné, il [Jean-Martin Charcot] lui arrivait de passer une grande partie de ses nuits à piocher un problème anatomo-pathologique, à construire un schéma, ou dessin figuratif comme celui de « la cloche », par exemple, représentant les diverses formes d’aphasie, et qui lui valut trois mois d’insomnie totale.
[…] puis il céda à l’aphasie, s’accota au placard, les bras collés aux cuisses, image vivante de l’animal assailli par un invincible ahurissement.
Antonyms
This word in other languages
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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