aspirée
\as.pi.ʁe\
The verdict
“aspirée” is uncommon French (frequency #61,314 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #61,314
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Consonne occlusive, consistant en un retard des cordes vocales à se refermer pour émettre la voyelle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aspiree · aspirée · French
aspirée · rank #61,314 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #61,314
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH aspartame
Nearest frequency peer: aspartame (-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 « aspirée »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arpentage
arpentage
38,691 corpus weight
- aspartame
aspartame
38,688 corpus weight
- aspirée
aspirée
38,687 corpus weight
- asticot
asticot
38,686 corpus weight
- attenter
attenter
38,684 corpus weight
- attrition
attrition
38,683 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aspirée » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspirée |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.pi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #61,314 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aspirée » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aspirée is uncommon French at frequency #61,314 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.pi.ʁe\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Consonne occlusive, consistant en un retard des cordes vocales à se refermer pour émettre la voyelle.".
No misspelling variants are generated for aspirée in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aspirée, spelled A-S-P-I-R-É-E.
Definition
- 1Consonne occlusive, consistant en un retard des cordes vocales à se refermer pour émettre la voyelle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how aspirée appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Fors a subi un changement de l'aspirée labiale en aspirée pure, rare en français mais commun dans les langues latine (filius - hijo en espagnol par exemple).
This word in other languages
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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