aspérité
\as.pe.ʁi.te\
The verdict
“aspérité” is uncommon French (frequency #99,882 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #99,882
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Qualité de ce qui est raboteux, inégal.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asperite · aspérité · French
aspérité · rank #99,882 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #99,882
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aspiraient
Nearest frequency peer: aspiraient (-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 « aspérité »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arriba
arriba
123 corpus weight
- Arrien
Arrien
122 corpus weight
- aspiraient
aspiraient
120 corpus weight
- aspérité
aspérité
119 corpus weight
- assourdissa…
assourdissantes
118 corpus weight
- attempt
attempt
116 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aspérité » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspérité |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.pe.ʁi.te\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #99,882 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aspérité » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aspérité is uncommon French at frequency #99,882 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.pe.ʁi.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aspérité, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is aspérité, spelled A-S-P-É-R-I-T-É.
Definition
- 1Qualité de ce qui est raboteux, inégal.
- 2Manque de douceur, d'harmonie.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aspérité appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les aspérités d'un sol fait de roches de formation primitive se trahissaient par des chocs multipliés qui secouaient les traîneaux, et, par contrecoup, les voyageurs.
La torsion régularise le diamètre du fil et elle tend à disposer les aspérités des fibres dans le sens transversal; donc plus un fil est tordu,, plus le coefficient de frottement est faible, ….
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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