asthme
\asm\
The verdict
“asthme” has 9 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #16,299. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #16,299
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 9
- tracked misspellings
- 4
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Inflammation chronique et évolutive des bronches, entraînant une bronchoconstriction et une gêne respiratoire à l'expiration.
Corpus desk
Index FR-asthme · asthme · French
asthme · rank #16,299 · 9 variants · 4 confusables
- FREQ-MID #16,299
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
- VAR-MID 9 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH ass
Nearest frequency peer: ass (-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.
Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « asthme »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- apôtre
apôtre
83,705 corpus weight
- aristocratie
aristocratie
83,704 corpus weight
- ass
ass
83,703 corpus weight
- asthme
asthme
83,702 corpus weight
- astronaute
astronaute
83,701 corpus weight
- athée
athée
83,700 corpus weight
What this shows « asthme » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.
Visual similarity to commonly confused words
How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).
Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | asthme |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \asm\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #16,299 |
| Misspellings tracked | 9 |
| Confusable pairs | 4 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « asthme »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 9 spelling variants around asthme (IPA \asm\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #16,299 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Inflammation chronique et évolutive des bronches, entraînant une bronchoconstriction et une gêne respiratoire à l'expiration.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 9 likely wrong-spelling variants for asthme, with forms such as "ashtme", "assthme", and "asthem". 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 also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "atome", "athée", "astuce", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is asthme, spelled A-S-T-H-M-E.
Definition
- 1Inflammation chronique et évolutive des bronches, entraînant une bronchoconstriction et une gêne respiratoire à l'expiration.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how asthme appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le Marquis.– Mon médecin est un âne… il me soigne pour un asthme… (Avec colère.) Un asthme !… C’est un cure-dent que j’ai avalé il y a quatre ans… il m’est resté dans le pharynx… Quand le temps change, il remue, et ça me fait tousser.
Bakounine nous tendit les deux mains et, respirant difficilement, à cause de son asthme, se leva et se mit à s’habiller.
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- ashtme
- assthme
- asthem
- asthhme
- asthmme
- astmhe
- astthme
- atshme
- sathme
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of asthme - expressed in single-character edits (insert, delete, or swap one letter). Bigger bars stand out at a glance; a one-edit slip is the hardest to catch.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).
Similar misspelling depth
Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (9 here; floor ≥5).