ashkénazes
\aʃ.ke.naz\
The verdict
“ashkénazes” is uncommon French (frequency #81,772 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,772
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ashkénaze.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ashkenazes · ashkénazes · French
ashkénazes · rank #81,772 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,772
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ashanti
Nearest frequency peer: ashanti (-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 « ashkénazes »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Arslan
Arslan
18,233 corpus weight
- arson
arson
18,232 corpus weight
- ashanti
ashanti
18,230 corpus weight
- ashkénazes
ashkénazes
18,229 corpus weight
- assaillir
assaillir
18,228 corpus weight
- asta
asta
18,226 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ashkénazes » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ashkénazes |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \aʃ.ke.naz\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #81,772 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ashkénazes » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ashkénazes is uncommon French at frequency #81,772 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \aʃ.ke.naz\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Pluriel de ashkénaze.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for ashkénazes, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. We don't track a confusable pairing for this entry, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, 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 ashkénazes, spelled A-S-H-K-É-N-A-Z-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ashkénaze.
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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