astérisque
The verdict
“astérisque” is a moderately-common French word, ranked #41,653 in French word frequency and used as a noun.
- #41,653
- frequency rank, French
- 10
- letters
- 15
- tracked misspellings
Dominant Wiktionary sense: Nom du signe typographique en forme d’étoile * qui, placé à la suite d’un mot ou d’une phrase, renvoie le lecteur à une annotation, et qui, placé devant un mot ou une phrase, indique qu’il s’agit d...
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astérisque |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.te.ʁisk\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #41,653 |
| Misspellings tracked | 15 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Where “astérisque” sits in French frequency
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for astérisque is 10 letters long, classified as a noun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \as.te.ʁisk\. Corpus data places it at rank #41,653 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it. Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 15 likely wrong-spelling variants for astérisque, with forms such as "asstérisque", "asterisque", and "astréisque". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. 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 astérisque, spelled A-S-T-É-R-I-S-Q-U-E, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Nom du signe typographique en forme d’étoile * qui, placé à la suite d’un mot ou d’une phrase, renvoie le lecteur à une annotation, et qui, placé devant un mot ou une phrase, indique qu’il s’agit d’une forme hypothétique, reconstituée ou agrammaticale.
- 2Genre d'astéracées comprenant une demi-douzaine de petites composées à capitules jaunes de distribution principalement méditerranéenne, et appelées plus communément astérolides ou pallénis. → voir astérisque maritime
- 3Signe, pouvant être répété, indiquant la qualité, l’aspect positif de quelque chose.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: asstérisque,asterisque,astréisque,asttérisque,astéirsque,astériqsue,astérisqeu,astérisqque,astérissque,astérisuqe,astérrisque,astérsique,asétrisque,atsérisque,satérisque
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of astérisque — measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
Edit distance from "astérisque"
Frequency rank: #41,653 in French
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Using “astérisque”
The practical upshot for anyone who landed here from a spell-check.
- The one correct French spelling is A-S-T-É-R-I-S-Q-U-E — every other letter order is a misspelling in standard orthography.
- Say it as \as.te.ʁisk\ (IPA); tap the speaker on the pronunciation badge to hear it where audio exists.
- Browse more French words and confusable pairs in the same reference. French words
Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: