aspirer
Letters
7 characters
Frequency Rank
#17,625
in French word usage
Misspellings
9
tracked variants
Confusables
6
similar word pairs
aspirer is aFrenchverb. It means: Attirer l’air extérieur dans ses poumons, par opposition à expirer. Pronounced \as.pi.ʁe\. Often confused with assurer and attirer.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aspirer |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \as.pi.ʁe\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #17,625 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for aspirer is 7 letters long, classified as averb, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \as.pi.ʁe\. Corpus data places it at rank #17,625 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 9 documented wrong-spelling variants for aspirer, with forms such as "apsirer", "asiprer", and "aspierr". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "assurer", "attirer", "aspire", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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 aspirer, spelled A-S-P-I-R-E-R, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Attirer l’air extérieur dans ses poumons, par opposition à expirer.
- 2Attirer, élever l’eau ou autre chose en faisant le vide.
- 3Nettoyer en passant l’aspirateur.
- 4Prononcer plus ou moins fortement de la gorge.
- 5Tendre vers, porter ses désirs vers un objet.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: apsirer,asiprer,aspierr,aspirerr,aspirrer,asppirer,asprier,asspirer,sapirer
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for aspirer
Misspelling Variants of "aspirer"
Frequency rank: #17,625 in French
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