astarté
\as.taʁ.te\
The verdict
“astarté” is uncommon French (frequency #89,408 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #89,408
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Dans la Haute Antiquité, divinité féminine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-astarte · astarté · French
astarté · rank #89,408 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #89,408
- LEN-LONG 7 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assouplisseme…
Nearest frequency peer: assouplissements (-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.
Rangs de longue queue près de « astarté »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assignant
assignant
10,596 corpus weight
- assou
assou
10,595 corpus weight
- assouplisse…
assouplissements
10,594 corpus weight
- astarté
astarté
10,593 corpus weight
- astronautiq…
astronautique
10,592 corpus weight
- atteindraie…
atteindraient
10,589 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « astarté » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astarté |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.taʁ.te\ |
| Letters | 7 |
| Frequency rank | #89,408 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « astarté » en français
Rare enough to double-check
astarté is uncommon French at frequency #89,408 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.taʁ.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
No misspelling variants are generated for astarté in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is easiest explained by how it's pronounced rather than where it came from. The correct French form is astarté, spelled A-S-T-A-R-T-É.
Definition
- 1Dans la Haute Antiquité, divinité féminine.
- 2Mollusque bivalve de la famille des astartidés.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how astarté appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
… dès que Yahweh, le dieu des Hébreux, se révèle à Moïse, il interdit d'adorer les divinités masculines (les baals) et les divinités féminines (les astartés), qu'il désigne du terme négatif d'« idoles ».
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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