ascite
\a.sit\
The verdict
“ascite” is uncommon French (frequency #93,495 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #93,495
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Excès d’épanchement de liquide intra-abdominal qui se situe plus précisément dans l’espace entre les feuillets péritonéaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascite · ascite · French
ascite · rank #93,495 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #93,495
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asad
Nearest frequency peer: asad (-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 « ascite »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Arromanches
Arromanches
6,509 corpus weight
- Arvernes
Arvernes
6,508 corpus weight
- asad
asad
6,507 corpus weight
- ascite
ascite
6,506 corpus weight
- ASFC
ASFC
6,505 corpus weight
- asociaux
asociaux
6,504 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ascite » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ascite |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sit\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #93,495 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ascite » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ascite is uncommon French at frequency #93,495 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sit\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No generated misspelling entries exist for ascite in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ascite, spelled A-S-C-I-T-E.
Definition
- 1Excès d’épanchement de liquide intra-abdominal qui se situe plus précisément dans l’espace entre les feuillets péritonéaux.
- 2Quasi-synonyme de ascodrute.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ascite appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les intestins sont du côté opposé à la tumeur, et n’occupent pas, comme dans l’ascite, les points les plus élevés de l’abdomen.
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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