aspa
\ˈaʃ.pɐ\
The verdict
“aspa” is uncommon French (frequency #74,566 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #74,566
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Croix de saint André.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aspa · aspa · French
aspa · rank #74,566 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #74,566
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assermentation
Nearest frequency peer: assermentation (+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 « aspa »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arraches
arraches
25,438 corpus weight
- arrêterez
arrêterez
25,437 corpus weight
- aspa
aspa
25,435 corpus weight
- assermentat…
assermentation
25,434 corpus weight
- asseyons
asseyons
25,433 corpus weight
- assoupie
assoupie
25,432 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aspa » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspa |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈaʃ.pɐ\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #74,566 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aspa » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aspa is uncommon French at frequency #74,566 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \ˈaʃ.pɐ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for aspa in our index, 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 usually means its spelling is distinct enough that readers don't reach for a similar-looking word instead.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aspa, spelled A-S-P-A.
Definition
- 1Croix de saint André.
- 2Deux madriers disposés diagonalement en croix pour consolider une construction.
- 3Sautoir.
Synonyms
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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