aspidistra
French, noun\as.pi.dis.tʁa\
aspidistra is spelled A-S-P-I-D-I-S-T-R-A (10 letters) and appears about once in every 59 million words in written French, the 242,150th most frequent French word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). Aspidistra is a French masculine noun meaning “aspidistra” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) defines it as “Genre de plantes monocotylédones de la famille des liliacées (classification classique) ou des asparagacées…”.
What does aspidistra mean in English?
noun
- 1
masculineaspidistra
Source: English Wiktionary, French section, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0).
How French dictionaries define it
adjective: 1. Couleur verte.
noun: 1. Genre de plantes monocotylédones de la famille des liliacées (classification classique) ou des asparagacées (classification phylogénétique) qui comprend une soixantaine d’espèces, originaires d'Asie.
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 aspidistra
- aspidistras plural
Source: English Wiktionary and French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026).
How do you pronounce aspidistra?
- \as.pi.dis.tʁa\
Sources: English Wiktionary, French Wiktionary (Wiktionnaire) (dumps of September 2, 2026 and September 1, 2026); recordings from Wikimedia Commons.
How common is aspidistra in French?
aspidistra appears about once in every 59 million words in written French.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).