asphyxie
\as.fik.si\
The verdict
“asphyxie” has 12 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #24,107. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #24,107
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 12
- tracked misspellings
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Arrêt plus ou moins long de la respiration, produit par différentes causes, telles que la submersion, la strangulation, l’absorption de gaz irrespirables, la compression du thorax, le rétrécissemen...
Corpus desk
Index FR-asphyxie · asphyxie · French
asphyxie · rank #24,107 · 12 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,107
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-MID 12 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH arsenic
Nearest frequency peer: arsenic (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « asphyxie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- argentins
argentins
75,897 corpus weight
- arriverais
arriverais
75,896 corpus weight
- arsenic
arsenic
75,895 corpus weight
- asphyxie
asphyxie
75,894 corpus weight
- athlétique
athlétique
75,893 corpus weight
- atomiques
atomiques
75,892 corpus weight
What this shows « asphyxie » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asphyxie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.fik.si\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #24,107 |
| Misspellings tracked | 12 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « asphyxie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 12 spelling variants around asphyxie (IPA \as.fik.si\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #24,107 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Arrêt plus ou moins long de la respiration, produit par différentes causes, telles que la submersion, la strangulation, l’absorption de gaz irrespirables, la compression du thorax, le rétrécissemen...".
Our generated misspelling index lists 12 likely wrong-spelling variants for asphyxie, with forms such as "apshyxie", "ashpyxie", and "asphhyxie". 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. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is asphyxie, spelled A-S-P-H-Y-X-I-E.
Definition
- 1Arrêt plus ou moins long de la respiration, produit par différentes causes, telles que la submersion, la strangulation, l’absorption de gaz irrespirables, la compression du thorax, le rétrécissement du larynx, etc.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how asphyxie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ce fait permet de prévoir l'utilité du spirophore pour combattre l’asphyxie due à l'abondance de mucosités bronchiques.
Il était là, allongé, non pas serein, comme Kyo, avant de se tuer, avait pensé qu’il deviendrait, mais convulsé par l’asphyxie, déjà autre chose qu’un homme.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- apshyxie
- ashpyxie
- asphhyxie
- asphxyie
- asphyixe
- asphyxei
- asphyxxie
- asphyyxie
- aspphyxie
- aspyhxie
- assphyxie
- saphyxie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asphyxie - 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
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