asinal
\a.zi.nal\
The verdict
“asinal” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 6
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qui concerne ou rappelle les ânes.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asinal · asinal · French
asinal · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 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 | asinal |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.zi.nal\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Rare enough to double-check
asinal is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anadjective, transcribed \a.zi.nal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Qui concerne ou rappelle les ânes.".
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for asinal, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is asinal, spelled A-S-I-N-A-L.
Definition
- 1Qui concerne ou rappelle les ânes.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how asinal appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce qu’il y avoit d’amusant dans cette espèce de saturnale, c’est que l’introït, le kyrie, le gloria, le credo, finissoient tous par ce refrain asinal : hin-han, hin-han ; et, au lieu de terminer la messe par ite missa est, le prêtre crioit hin-han à trois reprises.
Comme je me dispose à monter les alpes bourbonnaises, je revêts mes plus chauds habits et je vais rejoindre, à sa station habituelle, l’escadron asinal, si bien décrit par le malin et spirituel auteur de la Vichyade.
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.