ascète
\a.sɛt\
The verdict
“ascète” is uncommon French (frequency #64,935 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,935
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Celui, celle qui se livre, par piété, à des exercices spirituels et physiques, à des mortifications.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascete · ascète · French
ascète · rank #64,935 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,935
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ascot
Nearest frequency peer: ascot (-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 « ascète »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Argentière
Argentière
35,069 corpus weight
- Arthabaska
Arthabaska
35,068 corpus weight
- ascot
ascot
35,067 corpus weight
- ascète
ascète
35,066 corpus weight
- Ashby
Ashby
35,065 corpus weight
- Assam
Assam
35,064 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ascète » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ascète |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #64,935 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ascète » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ascète is uncommon French at frequency #64,935 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ascète in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ascète, spelled A-S-C-È-T-E.
Definition
- 1Celui, celle qui se livre, par piété, à des exercices spirituels et physiques, à des mortifications.
- 2Celui, celle qui mène une vie austère.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ascète appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Quiconque mange bien peut défier le ciel. Ce sont les ascètes et les meurt-de-faim aux estomacs débilités qui ont inventé les dieux.
Vivre en ascète.
Synonyms
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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