asta
The verdict
“asta” is uncommon French (frequency #81,775 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #81,775
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Hampe.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asta · asta · French
asta · rank #81,775 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #81,775
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assaillir
Nearest frequency peer: assaillir (-2 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 « asta »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- ashanti
ashanti
18,230 corpus weight
- ashkénazes
ashkénazes
18,229 corpus weight
- assaillir
assaillir
18,228 corpus weight
- asta
asta
18,226 corpus weight
- atterrée
atterrée
18,224 corpus weight
- attirèrent
attirèrent
18,223 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « asta » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asta |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #81,775 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « asta » en français
Rare enough to double-check
asta is uncommon French at frequency #81,775 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
asta doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
This headword's origin isn't recorded in our source data, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is asta, spelled A-S-T-A.
Definition
- 1Hampe.
- 2Enchère, criée.
- 3Perche, utilisée lors du saut à la perche.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how asta appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Asta di bandiera. Hampe d'un drapeau.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).