asbestos
\ˈæs.bɛs.tɒs\
The verdict
“asbestos” is uncommon French (frequency #68,051 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #68,051
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Amiante, asbeste, fibre de silicate de magnésium.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asbestos · asbestos · French
asbestos · rank #68,051 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #68,051
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrosez
Nearest frequency peer: arrosez (-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 « asbestos »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arriérée
arriérée
31,953 corpus weight
- arroger
arroger
31,952 corpus weight
- arrosez
arrosez
31,951 corpus weight
- asbestos
asbestos
31,950 corpus weight
- aseptisé
aseptisé
31,949 corpus weight
- ASMR
ASMR
31,948 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « asbestos » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asbestos |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈæs.bɛs.tɒs\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #68,051 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « asbestos » en français
Rare enough to double-check
asbestos is uncommon French at frequency #68,051 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈæs.bɛs.tɒs\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Amiante, asbeste, fibre de silicate de magnésium.".
No misspelling variants are generated for asbestos in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is asbestos, spelled A-S-B-E-S-T-O-S.
Definition
- 1Amiante, asbeste, fibre de silicate de magnésium.
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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