astérisme
\as.te.ʁism\
The verdict
“astérisme” is uncommon French (outside the top frequency list), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- Unranked
- below top-frequency French
- 9
- letters
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Constellation, figure dessinée par plusieurs étoiles.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asterisme · astérisme · French
astérisme · unranked · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-UNRANKED Unranked
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-THIN "A" thin
- PHOTO-UNK Peer pending
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.
| 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) |
Longue queue: rang de « astérisme » en français
Rare enough to double-check
astérisme is uncommon French outside the top frequency list, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.te.ʁism\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 3 senses are on record.
astérisme has no tracked misspelling variants, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, a sign it's visually distinctive enough not to be mixed up with another word.
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. The correct French form is astérisme, spelled A-S-T-É-R-I-S-M-E.
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.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how astérisme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Les astérismes sont marqués sur le globe céleste.
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). See the methodology for how each field is sourced and updated.