ascenseur

/\a.sɑ̃.sœʁ\/ noun

Letters

9 characters

Frequency Rank

#6,925

in French word usage

Misspellings

13

tracked variants

Confusables

2

similar word pairs

ascenseur is aFrenchnoun. It means: Appareil mécanique qui sert à monter ou descendre verticalement sans escalier. Pronounced \a.sɑ̃.sœʁ\. It ranks #6,925 in French word frequency. Often confused with assesseur and ascenseurs.

Key facts for ascenseur
PropertyValue
Headwordascenseur
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sɑ̃.sœʁ\
Letters9
Frequency rank#6,925
Misspellings tracked13
Confusable pairs2
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of ascenseur in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for ascenseur is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sɑ̃.sœʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #6,925 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 13 documented wrong-spelling variants for ascenseur, with forms such as "acsenseur", "asccenseur", and "ascenesur". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 2 confusable-pair relationships, "assesseur", "ascenseurs", where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is ascenseur, spelled A-S-C-E-N-S-E-U-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Appareil mécanique qui sert à monter ou descendre verticalement sans escalier.
  2. 2
    La cabine d’un ascenseur.
  3. 3
    Désigne le petit pavé qui peut être déplacé dans la bande de défilement.
  4. 4
    Jeu se jouant avec 52 cartes où le ou les gagnants sont ceux qui réalisent le nombre de levées annoncées.
  5. 5
    Saut porté.

Synonyms

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Common misspellings

Also misspelled as: acsenseur,asccenseur,ascenesur,ascennseur,ascenseru,ascenseurr,ascensseur,ascensuer,ascesneur,ascneseur,asecnseur,asscenseur,sacenseur

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ascenseur

Misspelling Variants of "ascenseur"

acsenseur9asccenseur10ascenesur9ascennseur10ascenseru9ascenseurr10ascensseur10ascensuer9
Misspelling Variants of "ascenseur"

Frequency rank: #6,925 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "ascenseur"?
"ascenseur" is spelled A-S-C-E-N-S-E-U-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sɑ̃.sœʁ\.
What does "ascenseur" mean?
As a noun, "ascenseur" means: Appareil mécanique qui sert à monter ou descendre verticalement sans escalier.
What words are commonly confused with "ascenseur"?
"ascenseur" is commonly confused with "assesseur", "ascenseurs". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "ascenseur"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "ascenseur" is \a.sɑ̃.sœʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "ascenseur" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.