aspire

\as.piʁ\

/\as.piʁ\/ verb

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The verdict

“aspire” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,513. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#13,513
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
8
tracked misspellings
14
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe aspirer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aspire · aspire · French

aspire · rank #13,513 · 8 variants · 14 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #13,513
  • LEN-LONG 6 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 14 pairs
  • VAR-MID 8 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH arrêtait

Nearest frequency peer: arrêtait (-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 « aspire »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « aspire » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

aspire vs assuré
50% similar
aspire vs assise
67% similar
aspire vs attiré
50% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for aspire
PropertyValue
Headwordaspire
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\as.piʁ\
Letters6
Frequency rank#13,513
Misspellings tracked8
Confusable pairs14
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aspire »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).aspirese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « arrêtait » (#13,512), « Auxerre » (#13,514), « aînée » (#13,515). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aspire » est au #13,513. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 8 spelling variants around aspire (IPA \as.piʁ\), averb. Corpus frequency is #13,513 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for aspire, with forms such as "apsire", "asipre", and "aspier". 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. It also participates in 14 confusable-pair relationships, "assuré", "assise", "attiré", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aspire, spelled A-S-P-I-R-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe aspirer.
  2. 2
    Troisième personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe aspirer.
  3. 3
    Première personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe aspirer.
  4. 4
    Troisième personne du singulier du subjonctif présent du verbe aspirer.
  5. 5
    Deuxième personne du singulier de l’impératif du verbe aspirer.

Recorded use

Wiktionary example

These source excerpts show how aspire appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Branché sur la prise allume-cigare, il l’aspire par sa base, éliminant ainsi les polluants par photocatalyse (les substances nocives, tels que le pollen et les particules fines sont ainsi décomposées), puis l’extrait par un filtre générateur d’ions afin de l’assainir.

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apsire
  • asipre
  • aspier
  • aspirre
  • asppire
  • asprie
  • asspire
  • sapire

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aspire - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.

apsire2asipre2aspier2aspirre1asppire1asprie2asspire1sapire2
Edit distance from "aspire"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "aspire"?
"aspire" is spelled A-S-P-I-R-E. The IPA pronunciation is \as.piʁ\.
What does "aspire" mean?
As a verb, "aspire" means: Première personne du singulier de l’indicatif présent du verbe aspirer.
What words are commonly confused with "aspire"?
"aspire" is commonly confused with "assuré", "assise", "attiré". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aspire"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aspire" is \as.piʁ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aspire" come from?
"aspire" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "aspire", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

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Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).

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Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list