Astana
\as.ta.na\
The verdict
“Astana” has 8 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #33,986. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #33,986
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 8
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Capitale du Kazakhstan.
Corpus desk
Index FR-astana · Astana · French
Astana · rank #33,986 · 8 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #33,986
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-MID 8 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH atteler
Nearest frequency peer: atteler (+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 « Astana »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- Artur
Artur
66,018 corpus weight
- assertion
assertion
66,017 corpus weight
- Astana
Astana
66,015 corpus weight
- atteler
atteler
66,014 corpus weight
- atténue
atténue
66,013 corpus weight
- avoisinant
avoisinant
66,012 corpus weight
What this shows « Astana » 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 | Astana |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Proper noun |
| IPA | \as.ta.na\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #33,986 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Astana »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 8 spelling variants around Astana (IPA \as.ta.na\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #33,986 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 2 senses, so context still picks the gloss.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Astana, with forms such as "asatna", "asstana", and "astaan". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "Aston", "autant", "antan", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is Astana, spelled A-S-T-A-N-A.
Definition
- 1Capitale du Kazakhstan.
- 2Gouvernement kazakh.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how Astana appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Aussi Nazarbaïev choisit-il la ville d’Akmola, située en pleine steppe et mieux placée géographiquement pour opérer sa surveillance et signifier sa souveraineté sur cette partie du territoire en particulier et sur la jeune nation en général. Il la rebaptise Astana (qui signifie par ailleurs capitale en kazakh), et son nouveau statut est officiellement ent…
Le président kazakh a signé samedi une loi qui rend à la capitale du Kazakhstan son ancien nom d’Astana, rompant avec l’héritage de l’ex-président Noursoultan Nazarbaïev qui l’avait nommée Nur-Sultan en 2019.
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asatna
- asstana
- astaan
- astanna
- astnaa
- asttana
- atsana
- satana
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Astana - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (8 here; floor ≥5).