asthénie
\as.te.ni\
The verdict
“asthénie” is uncommon French (frequency #80,884 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #80,884
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Fatigue physique du patient ou de la patiente, affaiblissement de l’organisme.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asthenie · asthénie · French
asthénie · rank #80,884 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #80,884
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assassinant
Nearest frequency peer: assassinant (-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 « asthénie »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- aspres
aspres
19,120 corpus weight
- assaisonnée
assaisonnée
19,119 corpus weight
- assassinant
assassinant
19,118 corpus weight
- asthénie
asthénie
19,117 corpus weight
- asu
asu
19,116 corpus weight
- attardant
attardant
19,115 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « asthénie » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asthénie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.te.ni\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #80,884 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « asthénie » en français
Rare enough to double-check
asthénie is uncommon French at frequency #80,884 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.te.ni\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Fatigue physique du patient ou de la patiente, affaiblissement de l’organisme.".
No misspelling variants are generated for asthénie in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. No close-neighbour confusable shows up for this headword in our dataset, which tends to mean the word is visually distinctive enough to stand on its own.
No documented word history exists for this headword, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is asthénie, spelled A-S-T-H-É-N-I-E.
Definition
- 1Fatigue physique du patient ou de la patiente, affaiblissement de l’organisme.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how asthénie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’asthénie et la fatigue sont l’un des premiers motifs de consultation en médecine générale.
Pendant des semaines, une brume maintint sous le boisseau la clarté du soleil, aggravant l'asthénie générale et rendant mon étude incommode.
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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