astronef
\as.tʁo.nɛf\
The verdict
“astronef” is uncommon French (frequency #95,561 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a noun. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #95,561
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Appareil conçu pour évoluer dans l’espace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-astronef · astronef · French
astronef · rank #95,561 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #95,561
- LEN-LONG 8 letters
- VOW-3 3 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assyriennes
Nearest frequency peer: assyriennes (-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 « astronef »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- assombrisse…
assombrissent
4,442 corpus weight
- assyriennes
assyriennes
4,441 corpus weight
- astronef
astronef
4,440 corpus weight
- attendes
attendes
4,439 corpus weight
- ATx
ATx
4,438 corpus weight
- Audoin
Audoin
4,437 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « astronef » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | astronef |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.tʁo.nɛf\ |
| Letters | 8 |
| Frequency rank | #95,561 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « astronef » en français
Rare enough to double-check
astronef is uncommon French at frequency #95,561 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as anoun, transcribed \as.tʁo.nɛf\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. Gloss: "Appareil conçu pour évoluer dans l’espace.".
The misspelling generator found no plausible variants for astronef, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. No confusable counterpart is on file for this word, since no other headword is close enough in sound or shape to pair with it.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is astronef, spelled A-S-T-R-O-N-E-F.
Definition
- 1Appareil conçu pour évoluer dans l’espace.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how astronef appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le jour qui a suivi la dernière visite de Gosh, l’astronef, que tout le monde croyait loin de la Terre, est revenu avec ses étincelles bleutées et ce grésillement qui hérissait nos poils et rendait les oiseaux muets.
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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