astarté
\as.taʁ.te\
The verdict
“astarté” is an uncommon French word, ranked #89,408 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #89,408
- frequency rank, French
- 7
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed May 6, 2026) - Dans la Haute Antiquité, divinité féminine.
| 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) |
Where “astarté” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for astarté is 7 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \as.taʁ.te\. Corpus data places it at rank #89,408 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 2 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
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.
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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Using “astarté”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-S-T-A-R-T-É - every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \as.taʁ.te\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
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Data Source
Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.