aster
\as.tɛʁ\
The verdict
“aster” is uncommon French (frequency #51,285 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #51,285
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Genre de plantes de la famille des Astéracées (ou Composées), qui ressemblent à des étoiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aster · aster · French
aster · rank #51,285 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #51,285
- LEN-MID 5 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assoupi
Nearest frequency peer: assoupi (-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 « aster »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- Assia
Assia
48,718 corpus weight
- assoupi
assoupi
48,717 corpus weight
- aster
aster
48,716 corpus weight
- attorney
attorney
48,715 corpus weight
- attrapes
attrapes
48,714 corpus weight
- Atwood
Atwood
48,713 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « aster » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | aster |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.tɛʁ\ |
| Letters | 5 |
| Frequency rank | #51,285 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « aster » en français
Rare enough to double-check
aster is uncommon French at frequency #51,285 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.tɛʁ\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for aster, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is aster, spelled A-S-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Genre de plantes de la famille des Astéracées (ou Composées), qui ressemblent à des étoiles.
- 2Chacune des deux structures microscopiques d'apparence étoilée apparaissant lors de la mitose et situées à chacun des pôles du fuseau mitotique d'une cellule animale en division.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how aster appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
La dormeuse était donc blanche comme l’aster des prés et rosée comme la fleur de l’églantier.
aster. Élégance. — Ses fleurs radiées, semblables à l’étoile, lui ont donné son nom. C’est parmi les asters qu’est née la jolie reine-marguerite, un des plus beaux ornements de nos jardins. Cette plante nous vient de la Chine et brille en automne; elle a des fleurs de toutes les couleurs, à l’exception du jaune. Elle s’élève en buissons et en gerbes éléga…
This word in other languages
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 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).