ascot
\a.sko\
The verdict
“ascot” is uncommon French (frequency #64,934 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,934
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Sorte de serge.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ascot · ascot · French
ascot · rank #64,934 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,934
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH Arthabaska
Nearest frequency peer: Arthabaska (-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 « ascot »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ardues
ardues
35,070 corpus weight
- 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
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ascot » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ascot |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.sko\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,934 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ascot » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ascot is uncommon French at frequency #64,934 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \a.sko\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for ascot in our index, since its letter pattern doesn't lend itself to common typo substitutions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ascot, spelled A-S-C-O-T.
Definition
- 1Sorte de serge.
- 2Sorte de double cravate courte et large.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ascot appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
le serge d’’Ascot ou ascot.
Il porte un costume avec un pantalon rayé, un ascot gris, et un veston sport, ce qui ne passe pas inaperçu.
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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