asile

/\a.zil\/ noun

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.

Key facts for asile
PropertyValue
Headwordasile
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.zil\
Letters5
Frequency rank#5,007
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of asile in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

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

  1. 1
    Privilège d’inviolabilité accordé à certaines personnes et à certains lieux chez les anciens.
  2. 2
    Refuge où l’on se met à l’abri des poursuites de la justice, d’une persécution, d’un danger, etc.
  3. 3
    Séjour, habitation.
  4. 4
    Séjour, habitation.
  5. 5
    Établissement scolaire qui était destiné à recevoir les enfants auxquels les parents ne pouvaient donner les soins nécessaires ; l’ancêtre de l’école communale.
  6. 6
    Établissement 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.
  7. 7
    Hospice d’aliénés.
  8. 8
    Protection, ce qui défend.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

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"

aisle5asiel5asille6aslie5assile6saile5
Misspelling Variants of "asile"

Frequency rank: #5,007 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "asile"?
"asile" is spelled A-S-I-L-E. The IPA pronunciation is \a.zil\.
What does "asile" mean?
As a noun, "asile" means: Privilège d’inviolabilité accordé à certaines personnes et à certains lieux chez les anciens.
What words are commonly confused with "asile"?
"asile" is commonly confused with "asl", "asse", "avale". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "asile"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "asile" is \a.zil\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "asile" come from?
"asile" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.