Ascalon

name

The verdict

“Ascalon” is an uncommon French word, ranked #89,401 in French word frequency and used as a proper noun.

#89,401
frequency rank, French
7
letters

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 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.

Key facts for Ascalon
PropertyValue
HeadwordAscalon
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
Letters7
Frequency rank#89,401
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “Ascalon” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). Ascalon lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
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Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for Ascalon is 7 letters long, classified as a proper noun. Corpus data places it at rank #89,401 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. The dominant gloss from Wiktionary reads: "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

  1. 1
    Ville balnéaire d’Israël sur la côte méditerranéenne, au nord de la bande de Gaza, située à 64 km au sud de Tel Aviv.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Ascalon"?
"Ascalon" is spelled A-S-C-A-L-O-N.
What does "Ascalon" mean?
As a proper noun, "Ascalon" means: Ville balnéaire d’Israël sur la côte méditerranéenne, au nord de la bande de Gaza, située à 64 km au sud de Tel Aviv.
What language does "Ascalon" come from?
"Ascalon" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Using “Ascalon”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-S-C-A-L-O-N - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
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.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list FrequencyWords open word-frequency list