aspe
\asp\
The verdict
“aspe” is uncommon French (frequency #70,397 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #70,397
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dévidoir sur lequel on enroule le fil de soie provenant des cocons pour en faire un écheveau.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aspe · aspe · French
aspe · rank #70,397 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #70,397
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arrêteraient
Nearest frequency peer: arrêteraient (-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 « aspe »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arquebuse
arquebuse
29,607 corpus weight
- arroge
arroge
29,606 corpus weight
- arrêteraient
arrêteraient
29,605 corpus weight
- aspe
aspe
29,604 corpus weight
- assiégeants
assiégeants
29,602 corpus weight
- assumerai
assumerai
29,601 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aspe » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspe |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \asp\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #70,397 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aspe » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aspe is uncommon French at frequency #70,397 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \asp\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Dévidoir sur lequel on enroule le fil de soie provenant des cocons pour en faire un écheveau.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aspe, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is aspe, spelled A-S-P-E.
Definition
- 1Dévidoir sur lequel on enroule le fil de soie provenant des cocons pour en faire un écheveau.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aspe appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
On donne ce nom dans les manufactures en soie de Piémont , indifféremment au dévidoir sur lequel on tire les soies des cocons , & à celui qui dans les moulins se charge de la soie organcinée : le premier s'appelle aspe de filature , & le second aspe de tors.
Synonyms
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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