astragale
\as.tʁa.ɡal\
The verdict
“astragale” is uncommon French (frequency #71,255 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #71,255
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Moulure composée d’un boudin, d’un listel et d’un congé qui embrasse l’extrémité supérieure d’une colonne.
Corpus desk
Index FR-astragale · astragale · French
astragale · rank #71,255 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #71,255
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assoupir
Nearest frequency peer: assoupir (-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 « astragale »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arrivistes
arrivistes
28,749 corpus weight
- assaillis
assaillis
28,748 corpus weight
- assoupir
assoupir
28,747 corpus weight
- astragale
astragale
28,746 corpus weight
- Athens
Athens
28,745 corpus weight
- attachements
attachements
28,744 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « astragale » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astragale |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.tʁa.ɡal\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #71,255 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « astragale » en français
Rare enough to double-check
astragale is uncommon French at frequency #71,255 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.tʁa.ɡal\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 6 senses are on record.
astragale has no tracked misspelling variants, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. Our confusable-pair dataset has no match for it, since nothing in our dataset looks or sounds close enough to cause mix-ups.
Our source data has no etymology on file 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 astragale, spelled A-S-T-R-A-G-A-L-E.
Definition
- 1Moulure composée d’un boudin, d’un listel et d’un congé qui embrasse l’extrémité supérieure d’une colonne.
- 2Profil très fréquent des nez de marche des escaliers.
- 3Un des os du tarse, le plus gros après le calcanéum, l'os du talon.
- 4Osselet de jeu.
- 5Genre de plantes de la famille Fabacées (légumineuses) riche en espèces, dont quelques-unes sont utiles par les sucs gommeux qui en découlent.
- 6Talus.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how astragale appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Un chapiteau orné d’astragales.
Les rosaces, les plinthes, les moulures, les astragales, tous les détails de l’édifice offrent la même perfection.
Synonyms
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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