asperge
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#37,664
in French word usage
Misspellings
10
tracked variants
Confusables
5
similar word pairs
asperge is aFrenchnoun. It means: Plante potagère de la famille des liliacées (classification classique) ou asparagacées (classification phylogénétique) dont on mange les jeunes pousses (Asparagus officinalis L.). Pronounced \as.pɛʁʒ\. Often confused with aspire and auberge.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asperge |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.pɛʁʒ\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #37,664 |
| Misspellings tracked | 10 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for asperge is 7 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \as.pɛʁʒ\. Corpus data places it at rank #37,664 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 6 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 10 likely wrong-spelling variants for asperge, with forms such as "apserge", "aseprge", and "aspegre". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "aspire", "auberge", "asperger", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is asperge, spelled A-S-P-E-R-G-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Plante potagère de la famille des liliacées (classification classique) ou asparagacées (classification phylogénétique) dont on mange les jeunes pousses (Asparagus officinalis L.).
- 2Ses turions utilisés dans l’alimentation humaine.
- 3Personne grande et maigre.
- 4Mollet.
- 5Pénis.
- 6Épilobe en épi (Epilobium angustifolium).
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apserge,aseprge,aspegre,aspereg,aspergge,asperrge,aspperge,asprege,assperge,saperge
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Misspelling Variants of "asperge"
Frequency rank: #37,664 in French
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