astronomie
\as.tʁɔ.nɔ.mi\
The verdict
“astronomie” has 14 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #13,326. The variants make it a useful spelling check.
- #13,326
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 14
- tracked misspellings
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Science ayant pour objet l'observation et l’étude des corps célestes dans leur position, leur mouvement et leur constitution.
Corpus desk
Index FR-astronomie · astronomie · French
astronomie · rank #13,326 · 14 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #13,326
- LEN-MEGA 10 letters
- VOW-5 5 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-HIGH 14 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH assassiner
Nearest frequency peer: assassiner (-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 « astronomie »
Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin
- arriverait
arriverait
86,678 corpus weight
- arrêtons
arrêtons
86,677 corpus weight
- assassiner
assassiner
86,676 corpus weight
- astronomie
astronomie
86,675 corpus weight
- attirant
attirant
86,673 corpus weight
- barbare
barbare
86,672 corpus weight
What this shows « astronomie » 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 | astronomie |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \as.tʁɔ.nɔ.mi\ |
| Letters | 10 |
| Frequency rank | #13,326 |
| Misspellings tracked | 14 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « astronomie »
A misspelling magnet
The generator records 14 spelling variants around astronomie (IPA \as.tʁɔ.nɔ.mi\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #13,326 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Science ayant pour objet l'observation et l’étude des corps célestes dans leur position, leur mouvement et leur constitution.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 14 likely wrong-spelling variants for astronomie, with forms such as "asrtonomie", "asstronomie", and "astornomie". 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 6 confusable-pair relationships, "autonomie", "astronomique", "astronome", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No borrowing history is documented for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is astronomie, spelled A-S-T-R-O-N-O-M-I-E.
Definition
- 1Science ayant pour objet l'observation et l’étude des corps célestes dans leur position, leur mouvement et leur constitution.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how astronomie appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Parce que l’astronomie parvenait à calculer les tables de la lune, on a cru que le but de toute science était de prévoir avec exactitude l’avenir ; […].
Synonyms
This word in other languages
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- asrtonomie
- asstronomie
- astornomie
- astrnoomie
- astronmoie
- astronnomie
- astronoime
- astronomei
- astronommie
- astroonmie
- astrronomie
- asttronomie
- atsronomie
- satronomie
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of astronomie - 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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