asinaire
\a.zi.nɛʁ\
The verdict
“asinaire” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 8
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - D’un âne ; lié à un âne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asinaire · asinaire · French
asinaire · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asinaire |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.zi.nɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
asinaire is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.zi.nɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for asinaire, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is asinaire, spelled A-S-I-N-A-I-R-E.
Definition
- 1D’un âne ; lié à un âne.
- 2Bête comme un âne.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how asinaire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Si quelqu’un sert d’achoppement aux faibles qui croient en moi, il vaudrait mieux qu’on lui mît au cou une meule asinaire, et qu’on le jetât dans la mer.
L’impostûre la plus asinaire (la plus bête) qu’on ait vûë.
Definitions, pronunciation, and etymology for this entry are drawn from Wiktionary via the kaikki.org structured extract (CC BY-SA). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.