aspirer
\as.pi.ʁe\
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
- ardeur
ardeur
82,380 corpus weight
- armor
armor
82,379 corpus weight
- arrivants
arrivants
82,378 corpus weight
- articulatio…
articulations
82,377 corpus weight
- aspirer
aspirer
82,376 corpus weight
- baguettes
baguettes
82,373 corpus weight
What this shows « aspirer » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| 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) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « aspirer »
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
- 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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aspirer appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
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.
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.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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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).