aspic

/\as.pik\/ noun

Letters

5 characters

Frequency Rank

#67,289

in French word usage

Misspellings

0

tracked variants

Confusables

0

similar word pairs

aspic is aFrenchnoun. It means: Serpent, proche du naja ou du cobra, répandu dans toute l’Afrique et très venimeux, l’aspic de Cléopâtre ou cobra égyptien. Pronounced \as.pik\.

Key facts for aspic
PropertyValue
Headwordaspic
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\as.pik\
Letters5
Frequency rank#67,289
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs0
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Frequency rank visualization

Position of aspic in French word frequency (lower rank = more common)

Source: Wordfreq corpus

Spelling & Dictionary Insight

The French entry for aspic is 5 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \as.pik\. Corpus data places it at rank #67,289 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 4 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.

No frequent misspelling variants are recorded for aspic in our index, suggesting the orthography either follows predictable French patterns or the word is uncommon enough that typo corpora lack signal.It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.

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 aspic, spelled A-S-P-I-C, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.

Definition

  1. 1
    Serpent, proche du naja ou du cobra, répandu dans toute l’Afrique et très venimeux, l’aspic de Cléopâtre ou cobra égyptien.
  2. 2
    Vipère d’Europe de l'ouest, la vipère aspic.
  3. 3
    Personne très médisante. Grâce à leur venin, ces serpents ont toujours symbolisé la calomnie. L’aspic des voleurs n’est que la vipère des honnêtes gens.
  4. 4
    Un avare.

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This word in other languages

Frequency rank: #67,289 in French

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aspic"?
"aspic" is spelled A-S-P-I-C. The IPA pronunciation is \as.pik\.
What does "aspic" mean?
As a noun, "aspic" means: Serpent, proche du naja ou du cobra, répandu dans toute l’Afrique et très venimeux, l’aspic de Cléopâtre ou cobra égyptien.
How do you pronounce "aspic"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aspic" is \as.pik\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aspic" come from?
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Data Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Frequency data from Wordfreq. Misspellings derived from Hunspell dictionaries.