Ashby
The verdict
“Ashby” is uncommon French (frequency #64,936 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #64,936
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Nom de famille.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ashby · Ashby · French
Ashby · rank #64,936 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #64,936
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ascète
Nearest frequency peer: ascète (-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 « Ashby »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- assayas
assayas
35,063 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ashby » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ashby |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #64,936 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ashby » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ashby is uncommon French at frequency #64,936 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Nom de famille.".
Zero misspellings are on record for Ashby in our index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. Our dataset records no confusable match here, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is Ashby, spelled A-S-H-B-Y.
Definition
- 1Nom de famille.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how Ashby appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Thomas Ashby.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).