astreints
\as.tʁɛ̃\
The verdict
“astreints” is uncommon French (frequency #72,083 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as an adjective. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #72,083
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Masculin pluriel de astreint.
Corpus desk
Index FR-astreints · astreints · French
astreints · rank #72,083 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #72,083
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assiégées
Nearest frequency peer: assiégées (-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 « astreints »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- arrangez
arrangez
27,921 corpus weight
- arrivai
arrivai
27,920 corpus weight
- assiégées
assiégées
27,919 corpus weight
- astreints
astreints
27,918 corpus weight
- attablés
attablés
27,917 corpus weight
- attribuera
attribuera
27,916 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « astreints » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astreints |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \as.tʁɛ̃\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #72,083 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « astreints » en français
Rare enough to double-check
astreints is uncommon French at frequency #72,083 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anadjective, transcribed \as.tʁɛ̃\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Masculin pluriel de astreint.".
No misspelling variants are generated for astreints in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. This headword has no recorded confusable partner, since its spelling is unusual enough that it doesn't cluster with a lookalike.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology 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 astreints, spelled A-S-T-R-E-I-N-T-S.
Definition
- 1Masculin pluriel de astreint.
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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