ascétique
\a.se.tik\
The verdict
“ascétique” is uncommon French (frequency #60,549 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #60,549
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui a rapport à l’ascétisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascetique · ascétique · French
ascétique · rank #60,549 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #60,549
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH artériel
Nearest frequency peer: artériel (-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 « ascétique »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- areola
areola
39,455 corpus weight
- arnica
arnica
39,454 corpus weight
- artériel
artériel
39,453 corpus weight
- ascétique
ascétique
39,452 corpus weight
- assa
assa
39,450 corpus weight
- assouplit
assouplit
39,449 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ascétique » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ascétique |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.se.tik\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #60,549 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ascétique » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ascétique is uncommon French at frequency #60,549 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.se.tik\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ascétique, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ascétique, spelled A-S-C-É-T-I-Q-U-E.
Definition
- 1Qui a rapport à l’ascétisme.
- 2Maigre.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ascétique appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les traits n’exprimaient rien de l’austérité monastique et ne conservaient aucune trace de privation ascétique : au contraire, c’était un visage hardi, enjoué.
C'est l'absence de sens et non celle-ci qui était la malédiction jusqu’ici répandue sur l’humanité, — et l’idéal ascétique lui offrait un sens ! Jusqu’ici c’était le seul sens ; n’importe quel sens vaut mieux que pas du tout ; à cet égard l’idéal ascétique était le "faute de mieux" par excellence qu’on pouvait trouver.
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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