aspect
\as.pɛ\
The verdict
“aspect” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #2,214. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #2,214
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Vue d’une personne ou d’une chose.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aspect · aspect · French
aspect · rank #2,214 · 9 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-COMMON #2,214
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arbre
Nearest frequency peer: arbre (-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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “aspect”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- alliance
alliance
97,790 corpus weight
- apparemment
apparemment
97,789 corpus weight
- arbre
arbre
97,788 corpus weight
- aspect
aspect
97,787 corpus weight
- attendu
attendu
97,786 corpus weight
- auquel
auquel
97,785 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “aspect” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspect |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.pɛ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #2,214 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “aspect” se place dans la fréquence du français
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around aspect (IPA \as.pɛ\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #2,214 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 6 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for aspect, with forms such as "apsect", "asepct", and "aspcet". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "asset", "aspen", "aspects", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aspect, spelled A-S-P-E-C-T.
Definition
- 1Vue d’une personne ou d’une chose.
- 2Manière dont une chose se présente à l’esprit.
- 3Manière dont une personne ou un objet s’offre à la vue.
- 4Différentes faces, des divers points de vue sous lesquels se présente une chose, une affaire.
- 5Angle remarquable entre deux planètes dans un thème astral.
- 6Trait grammatical associé à un prédicat exprimant le point de vue de son développement (commencement, déroulement, achèvement, évolution globale ou moment précis de cette évolution).
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aspect appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Seulement, je me rends compte qu’il n’apparaissait tel que je l’ai retenu que dans l’intimité du foyer, après que le contact avait dissipé les préventions que causaient son aspect et son abord.
Ainsi manœuvrent les lovelaces du pavé qui, avant d'aborder une femme rencontrée dans la rue, tiennent à l'examiner sous tous ses aspects.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apsect
- asepct
- aspcet
- aspecct
- aspectt
- aspetc
- asppect
- asspect
- sapect
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aspect - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aspect", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).
What to do next
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- "aspect" maps to 6 confusable pairs in this vintage; the highest-scored is "asset". View pair
- 9 edit-distance misspelling variants are generated for spell-check research on this headword. See variants
- Usage frequency rank #2,214 among French headwords in this corpus. Corpus statistics
- Browse more French words in the "A" letter cohort. A–Z browse
PlainSpell is a reference corpus, not spelling advice. Verify unusual forms in context.
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.