asked

verb

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The verdict

“asked” is uncommon French (frequency #79,946 among 424,905 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.

#79,946
frequency rank, French
424,905
“A” headwords

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Prétérit du verbe to ask.

Key facts for asked
PropertyValue
Headwordasked
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
Letters5
Frequency rank#79,946
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Where “asked” sits in French frequency

Every-word frequency runs from the handful of words we use constantly (left) to the long tail used once in a blue moon (right). asked lands here:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Scale is logarithmic (each tick is 10× rarer). Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Rare enough to double-check

asked is uncommon French at frequency #79,946 among 424,905 “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

  1. 1
    Prétérit du verbe to ask.

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "asked"?
"asked" is spelled A-S-K-E-D.
What does "asked" mean?
As a verb, "asked" means: Prétérit du verbe to ask.
What language does "asked" come from?
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Using “asked”

The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.

  • The one correct French spelling is A-S-K-E-D - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
  • Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words

Other uncommon French words near this rank

Data Source

Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list