ASC
\a.ɛs.se\
The verdict
“ASC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #45,446) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #45,446
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Partenariat entre un producteur agricole et un consommateur qui s’engage avant une saison à l’achat hebdomadaire de paniers de légumes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asc · ASC · French
ASC · rank #45,446 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #45,446
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ASAP
Nearest frequency peer: ASAP (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « ASC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- arrêterons
arrêterons
54,558 corpus weight
- Arsenault
Arsenault
54,557 corpus weight
- ASAP
ASAP
54,556 corpus weight
- ASC
ASC
54,555 corpus weight
- assignations
assignations
54,554 corpus weight
- astrophysic…
astrophysicien
54,552 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ASC » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ASC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.ɛs.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #45,446 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ASC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ASC is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "at", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.ɛs.se\. Frequency #45,446 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Partenariat entre un producteur agricole et un consommateur qui s’engage avant une saison à l’achat hebdomadaire de paniers de légumes.".
ASC has no tracked misspelling variants, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "at", "av", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is ASC, spelled A-S-C.
Definition
- 1Partenariat entre un producteur agricole et un consommateur qui s’engage avant une saison à l’achat hebdomadaire de paniers de légumes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ASC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le système d’ASC, un système en auto-cueillette, permet certaines latitudes aux maraîchers.
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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