aspartame
\as.paʁ.tam\
The verdict
“aspartame” is uncommon French (frequency #61,313 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,313
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Édulcorant artificiel dont les effets secondaires sont discutés.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aspartame · aspartame · French
aspartame · rank #61,313 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,313
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aspirée
Nearest frequency peer: aspirée (+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 « aspartame »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arditi
arditi
38,693 corpus weight
- arpentage
arpentage
38,691 corpus weight
- aspartame
aspartame
38,688 corpus weight
- aspirée
aspirée
38,687 corpus weight
- asticot
asticot
38,686 corpus weight
- attenter
attenter
38,684 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aspartame » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspartame |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.paʁ.tam\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #61,313 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aspartame » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aspartame is uncommon French at frequency #61,313 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.paʁ.tam\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Our edit-distance generator produced no likely misspellings for aspartame, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is aspartame, spelled A-S-P-A-R-T-A-M-E.
Definition
- 1Édulcorant artificiel dont les effets secondaires sont discutés.
- 2Dose d’aspartame se présentant sous forme de gélule, de dosette ou de pilule.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aspartame appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’aspartame est contre-indiqué lors de phénylcétonurie à cause de la phénylalanine, et chez les enfants de moins de 3 mois.
Parmi les édulcorants, le plus utilisé par l’industrie agroalimentaire est l’aspartame, une poudre blanche dont le pouvoir sucrant est environ 200 fois supérieur à celui du sucre.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 9 letters (nearest by frequency rank).