Ascalon
The verdict
“Ascalon” is uncommon French (frequency #89,401 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,401
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville balnéaire d’Israël sur la côte méditerranéenne, au nord de la bande de Gaza, située à 64 km au sud de Tel Aviv.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascalon · Ascalon · French
Ascalon · rank #89,401 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,401
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH artificial
Nearest frequency peer: artificial (-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 « Ascalon »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arima
arima
10,604 corpus weight
- arrangerais
arrangerais
10,602 corpus weight
- artificial
artificial
10,601 corpus weight
- Ascalon
Ascalon
10,600 corpus weight
- assassina
assassina
10,598 corpus weight
- assignant
assignant
10,596 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ascalon » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ascalon |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,401 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ascalon » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ascalon is uncommon French at frequency #89,401 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville balnéaire d’Israël sur la côte méditerranéenne, au nord de la bande de Gaza, située à 64 km au sud de Tel Aviv.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for Ascalon, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is Ascalon, spelled A-S-C-A-L-O-N.
Definition
- 1Ville balnéaire d’Israël sur la côte méditerranéenne, au nord de la bande de Gaza, située à 64 km au sud de Tel Aviv.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ascalon appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
— Mais ton grand-père balayait le temple d’Ascalon ! Les autres étaient bergers, bandits, conducteurs de caravanes, une horde, tributaire de Juda depuis le roi David ! Tous mes ancêtres ont battu les tiens !
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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