ascendantes
\a.sɑ̃.dɑ̃t\
The verdict
“ascendantes” is uncommon French (frequency #86,430 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #86,430
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Féminin pluriel de ascendant.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascendantes · ascendantes · French
ascendantes · rank #86,430 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #86,430
- LEN-MEGA 11 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arçon
Nearest frequency peer: arçon (-2 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 « ascendantes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arrangea
arrangea
13,576 corpus weight
- arçon
arçon
13,573 corpus weight
- ascendantes
ascendantes
13,571 corpus weight
- aspirantes
aspirantes
13,569 corpus weight
- ASSR
ASSR
13,568 corpus weight
- atavisme
atavisme
13,567 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ascendantes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ascendantes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.sɑ̃.dɑ̃t\ |
| Letters | 11 |
| Frequency rank | #86,430 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ascendantes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ascendantes is uncommon French at frequency #86,430 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.sɑ̃.dɑ̃t\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Féminin pluriel de ascendant.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ascendantes, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ascendantes, spelled A-S-C-E-N-D-A-N-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Féminin pluriel de ascendant.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ascendantes appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Lorsque le faisceau de Gowers s’infléchit pour pénétrer dans le cervelet (Voy. fig. 367, b), les longues fibres antéro-latérales ascendantes poursuivent leur trajet ascendant.
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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