aspi
\as.pi\
The verdict
“aspi” is uncommon French (frequency #65,709 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #65,709
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Jeune officier militaire ou officier appelé.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aspi · aspi · French
aspi · rank #65,709 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #65,709
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH asphyxiés
Nearest frequency peer: asphyxiés (-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 « aspi »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arrondit
arrondit
34,295 corpus weight
- arrosoir
arrosoir
34,294 corpus weight
- asphyxiés
asphyxiés
34,293 corpus weight
- aspi
aspi
34,292 corpus weight
- astiquer
astiquer
34,291 corpus weight
- attirez
attirez
34,290 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aspi » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspi |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.pi\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #65,709 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aspi » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aspi is uncommon French at frequency #65,709 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.pi\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Jeune officier militaire ou officier appelé.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for aspi, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aspi, spelled A-S-P-I.
Definition
- 1Jeune officier militaire ou officier appelé.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aspi appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
– Le mien, dit Conan, c’est huit jours après que j’étais sorti de Saint-Cyr comme aspi… Tu y as été, toi, à Saint-Cyr ? – Non. – Ne le regrette pas ! C’était plein d’embusqués qui t’en faisaient baver, pour rester au chaud !
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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