aspirer

\as.pi.ʁe\

/\as.pi.ʁe\/ verb

The verdict

“aspirer” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #17,625. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#17,625
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
9
tracked misspellings
6
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Attirer l’air extérieur dans ses poumons, par opposition à expirer.

Corpus desk

Index FR-aspirer · aspirer · French

aspirer · rank #17,625 · 9 variants · 6 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #17,625
  • LEN-LONG 7 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
  • VAR-MID 9 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH articulations

Nearest frequency peer: articulations (-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 « aspirer »

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

corpus weight

What this shows « aspirer » 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).

aspirer vs assurer
71% similar
aspirer vs attirer
71% similar
aspirer vs aspire
86% similar

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

Key facts for aspirer
PropertyValue
Headwordaspirer
LanguageFrench
Part of speechVerb
IPA\as.pi.ʁe\
Letters7
Frequency rank#17,625
Misspellings tracked9
Confusable pairs6
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aspirer »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.aspirerse place ici:

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

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « articulations » (#17,624), « arrivants » (#17,623), « armor » (#17,622). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « aspirer » est au #17,625. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 9 spelling variants around aspirer (IPA \as.pi.ʁe\), averb. Corpus frequency is #17,625 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 5 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for aspirer, with forms such as "apsirer", "asiprer", and "aspierr". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "assurer", "attirer", "aspire", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is aspirer, spelled A-S-P-I-R-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Attirer l’air extérieur dans ses poumons, par opposition à expirer.
  2. 2
    Attirer, élever l’eau ou autre chose en faisant le vide.
  3. 3
    Nettoyer en passant l’aspirateur.
  4. 4
    Prononcer plus ou moins fortement de la gorge.
  5. 5
    Tendre vers, porter ses désirs vers un objet.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

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

  1. De mon cigare il ne me restait plus qu’un bout entre les lèvres, et, après en avoir aspiré les dernières bouffées, je le jette par-dessus le bord.
  2. Aspirer l’air à pleins poumons.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • apsirer
  • asiprer
  • aspierr
  • aspirerr
  • aspirrer
  • asppirer
  • asprier
  • asspirer
  • sapirer

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aspirer - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

apsirer2asiprer2aspierr2aspirerr1aspirrer1asppirer1asprier2asspirer1
Edit distance from "aspirer"

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 "aspirer"?
"aspirer" is spelled A-S-P-I-R-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \as.pi.ʁe\.
What does "aspirer" mean?
As a verb, "aspirer" means: Attirer l’air extérieur dans ses poumons, par opposition à expirer.
What words are commonly confused with "aspirer"?
"aspirer" is commonly confused with "assurer", "attirer", "aspire". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "aspirer"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "aspirer" is \as.pi.ʁe\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "aspirer" come from?
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Similar French words by spelling shape

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

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 7 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).

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

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list