astérisme
Letters
9 characters
Language
French
word origin
Misspellings
0
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Confusables
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astérisme is aFrenchnoun. It means: Constellation, figure dessinée par plusieurs étoiles. Pronounced \as.te.ʁism\.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astérisme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.te.ʁism\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
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Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for astérisme is 9 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \as.te.ʁism\. It sits outside the most-frequent rank tiers, which is often why uncommon words generate more spelling variants per reader.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
No misspelling variants are generated for astérisme in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns.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 spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is astérisme, spelled A-S-T-É-R-I-S-M-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Constellation, figure dessinée par plusieurs étoiles.
- 2Phénomène optique en forme d'étoile à 4 ou 6 branches nommée aussi astérie, que l’on observe dans certains minéraux (tel le grenat, le saphir, etc.) par diffraction de la lumière.
- 3Signe typographique formé de trois astérisques disposés en triangle (⁂). Il permet d’attirer l’attention sur un passage ou bien de séparer les sous-chapitres d’un livre.
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