Ashdod
\aʃ.dod\
The verdict
“Ashdod” is uncommon French (frequency #85,482 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #85,482
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Ville d’Israël.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ashdod · Ashdod · French
Ashdod · rank #85,482 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #85,482
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ascètes
Nearest frequency peer: ascètes (-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 « Ashdod »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- 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
- attendraient
attendraient
14,516 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Ashdod » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Ashdod |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \aʃ.dod\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #85,482 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Ashdod » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Ashdod is uncommon French at frequency #85,482 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \aʃ.dod\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Ville d’Israël.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Ashdod, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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 Ashdod, spelled A-S-H-D-O-D.
Definition
- 1Ville d’Israël.
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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