astreint
\as.tʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“astreint” is uncommon French (frequency #56,426 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #56,426
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Limité par des règles, lois, conventions ; obligé, contraint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-astreint · astreint · French
astreint · rank #56,426 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #56,426
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assyrien
Nearest frequency peer: assyrien (-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 « astreint »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assembly
assembly
43,577 corpus weight
- assyrien
assyrien
43,576 corpus weight
- astreint
astreint
43,575 corpus weight
- astrologues
astrologues
43,574 corpus weight
- Atatürk
Atatürk
43,573 corpus weight
- atone
atone
43,572 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « astreint » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astreint |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \as.tʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #56,426 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « astreint » en français
Rare enough to double-check
astreint is uncommon French at frequency #56,426 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \as.tʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Limité par des règles, lois, conventions ; obligé, contraint.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for astreint, which points to an orthography that plays by predictable French rules. This entry stands alone in our confusable dataset, suggesting its spelling stands apart enough that readers rarely confuse it with something else.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so any spelling logic here comes from how the word's sounds map to letters, not a documented origin story. The correct French form is astreint, spelled A-S-T-R-E-I-N-T.
Definition
- 1Limité par des règles, lois, conventions ; obligé, contraint.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how astreint appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’algèbre est si astreinte à la considération des figures.
À mesure que l'on monte dans la hiérarchie militaire ou la hiérarchie sociale, on se trouve plus ou moins astreint à l'initiative. Alors, adieu la paix.
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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