ascètes
\a.sɛt\
The verdict
“ascètes” is uncommon French (frequency #85,481 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,481
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ascète.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascetes · ascètes · French
ascètes · rank #85,481 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,481
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Ashdod
Nearest frequency peer: Ashdod (+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 « ascètes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arnie
arnie
14,524 corpus weight
- Aronofsky
Aronofsky
14,523 corpus weight
- ascètes
ascètes
14,520 corpus weight
- Ashdod
Ashdod
14,519 corpus weight
- asses
asses
14,518 corpus weight
- assignent
assignent
14,517 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ascètes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ascètes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sɛt\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #85,481 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ascètes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ascètes is uncommon French at frequency #85,481 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sɛt\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ascète.".
ascètes has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ascètes, spelled A-S-C-È-T-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ascète.
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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