asile
Letters
5 characters
Frequency Rank
#5,007
in French word usage
Misspellings
6
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
asile is aFrenchnoun. It means: Privilège d’inviolabilité accordé à certaines personnes et à certains lieux chez les anciens. Pronounced \a.zil\. It ranks #5,007 in French word frequency. Often confused with asl and asse.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asile |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.zil\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #5,007 |
| Misspellings tracked | 6 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for asile is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.zil\. Corpus data places it at rank #5,007 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 8 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 6 documented wrong-spelling variants for asile, with forms such as "aisle", "asiel", and "asille". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "asl", "asse", "avale", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is asile, spelled A-S-I-L-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Privilège d’inviolabilité accordé à certaines personnes et à certains lieux chez les anciens.
- 2Refuge où l’on se met à l’abri des poursuites de la justice, d’une persécution, d’un danger, etc.
- 3Séjour, habitation.
- 4Séjour, habitation.
- 5Établissement scolaire qui était destiné à recevoir les enfants auxquels les parents ne pouvaient donner les soins nécessaires ; l’ancêtre de l’école communale.
- 6Établissement de bienfaisance qui sert de retraite à des infirmes, à des vieillards ou à des convalescents, ou qui donne un abri momentané à des personnes dans le besoin.
- 7Hospice d’aliénés.
- 8Protection, ce qui défend.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: aisle,asiel,asille,aslie,assile,saile
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for asile
Misspelling Variants of "asile"
Frequency rank: #5,007 in French
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