aspérité
French, noun/as.pe.ʁi.te/
aspérité is spelled A-S-P-É-R-I-T-É (8 letters) and appears about once in every 9 million words in written French, the 100,007th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aspérité is a French feminine noun meaning “asperity” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Qualité de ce qui est raboteux, inégal”.
What does aspérité mean in English?
noun
- 1
feminineasperity
- 2
feminineruggedness
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
noun: 1. Qualité de ce qui est raboteux, inégal. 2. Manque de douceur, d'harmonie.
The definition in the French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), in French.
Source: French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire), dump of September 1, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org.
Forms of aspérité
- aspérités plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aspérité?
- /as.pe.ʁi.te/
- \as.pe.ʁi.te\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
English words that translate to aspérité
Source: the translation tables of the English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026.
How common is aspérité in French?
aspérité appears about once in every 9 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).