asked
The verdict
“asked” is uncommon French (frequency #79,946 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #79,946
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Prétérit du verbe to ask.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asked · asked · French
asked · rank #79,946 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #79,946
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ascensionnel
Nearest frequency peer: ascensionnel (-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 « asked »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arquées
arquées
20,059 corpus weight
- arriérées
arriérées
20,057 corpus weight
- ascensionnel
ascensionnel
20,056 corpus weight
- asked
asked
20,055 corpus weight
- aspersion
aspersion
20,054 corpus weight
- atlantiste
atlantiste
20,052 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « asked » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asked |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #79,946 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « asked » en français
Rare enough to double-check
asked is uncommon French at frequency #79,946 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Prétérit du verbe to ask.".
asked doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is asked, spelled A-S-K-E-D.
Definition
- 1Prétérit du verbe to ask.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how asked appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
After a brief, appalled glance at Lydia, Mrs Molesworth (Lil) sat down on a corner of the sofa and asked the doctor a question about the imminent agricultural show designed to exclude Lydia from the conversation, to reveal her close knowledge of this event and therefore to illustrate her important position in the local community.
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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