Asmodée
\as.mɔ.de\
The verdict
“Asmodée” is uncommon French (frequency #90,423 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a proper noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #90,423
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Démon apparaissant dans le livre apocryphe de Tobie.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asmodee · Asmodée · French
Asmodée · rank #90,423 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #90,423
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assane
Nearest frequency peer: assane (+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 « Asmodée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arthurienne
arthurienne
9,581 corpus weight
- aréole
aréole
9,580 corpus weight
- Asmodée
Asmodée
9,578 corpus weight
- assane
assane
9,577 corpus weight
- associate
associate
9,576 corpus weight
- assuma
assuma
9,575 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « Asmodée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Asmodée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \as.mɔ.de\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #90,423 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « Asmodée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
Asmodée is uncommon French at frequency #90,423 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as aproper noun, transcribed \as.mɔ.de\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Démon apparaissant dans le livre apocryphe de Tobie.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for Asmodée, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Asmodée, spelled A-S-M-O-D-É-E.
Definition
- 1Démon apparaissant dans le livre apocryphe de Tobie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Asmodée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Car elle avait été successivement donnée en mariage à sept maris, et un démon, nommé Asmodée, les avait fait mourir aussitôt qu’ils étaient venus auprès d’elle.
ASMODÉE, — Démon destructeur. Il est aux enfers le surintendant des maisons de jeu, selon l’esprit de quelques démonomanes. Il sème la dissipation et l’erreur. C’est lui qui posséda la jeune Sara, dont il était amoureux, et lui étrangla sept maris avant qu’elle épousât son cousin Tobie. Les rabbins content qu’il détrôna Salomon ; mais que bientôt Salomon…
This word in other languages
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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