Asturies

\as.ty.ʁi\

/\as.ty.ʁi\/ name

The verdict

“Asturies” has 11 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #40,128. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#40,128
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
11
tracked misspellings
4
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Province et communauté autonome d’Espagne, bordée par la mer Cantabrique au nord, la Cantabrie à l’est, la province de León au sud, et la Galice à l’ouest.

Corpus desk

Index FR-asturies · Asturies · French

Asturies · rank #40,128 · 11 variants · 4 confusables

  • FREQ-MID #40,128
  • LEN-LONG 8 letters
  • VOW-4 4 vowels
  • CONFUS-MID 4 pairs
  • VAR-MID 11 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH artus

Nearest frequency peer: artus (-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 « Asturies »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « Asturies » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

Asturies vs astres
63% similar
Asturies vs astuces
63% similar
Asturies vs assures
63% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for Asturies
PropertyValue
HeadwordAsturies
LanguageFrench
Part of speechProper noun
IPA\as.ty.ʁi\
Letters8
Frequency rank#40,128
Misspellings tracked11
Confusable pairs4
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « Asturies »

Cette échelle va du noyau du français courant (gauche) jusqu'à la traîne des formes rares (droite).Asturiesse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'échelle est logarithmique (chaque tic ≈ 10× plus rare). Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « artus » (#40,127), « attachants » (#40,129), « arrangeait » (#40,126). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « Asturies » est au #40,128. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 11 spelling variants around Asturies (IPA \as.ty.ʁi\), aproper noun. Corpus frequency is #40,128 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Dominant gloss: "Province et communauté autonome d’Espagne, bordée par la mer Cantabrique au nord, la Cantabrie à l’est, la province de León au sud, et la Galice à l’ouest.".

Our generated misspelling index lists 11 likely wrong-spelling variants for Asturies, with forms such as "assturies", "astruies", and "astturies". Every one of these variants traces to a single-character edit -- an added or dropped letter, a swapped consonant, or a vowel swap -- the kind of slip a spell-checker is built to catch. It also participates in 4 confusable-pair relationships, "astres", "astuces", "assures", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is Asturies, spelled A-S-T-U-R-I-E-S.

Definition

  1. 1
    Province et communauté autonome d’Espagne, bordée par la mer Cantabrique au nord, la Cantabrie à l’est, la province de León au sud, et la Galice à l’ouest.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how Asturies appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Découvrez les régions de la Galicie, des Asturies, de la Cantabrie et de la Castille-et-Léon qui sont très différentes du reste de l’Espagne de par leur nature, leurs traditions et leur train de vie.
  2. Les plans de protection développés dès les années 1990 entre la Cantabrie, les Asturies, la Galice et la Castille-et-Léon ont porté leurs fruits, au point que, selon les experts, le territoire des ours est aujourd’hui deux fois plus grand que la zone délimitée dans les plans de peuplement.

Synonyms

This word in other languages

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • assturies
  • astruies
  • astturies
  • astuires
  • astureis
  • asturiess
  • asturise
  • asturries
  • asutries
  • atsuries
  • saturies

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of Asturies - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.

assturies1astruies2astturies1astuires2astureis2asturiess1asturise2asturries1
Edit distance from "Asturies"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "Asturies"?
"Asturies" is spelled A-S-T-U-R-I-E-S. The IPA pronunciation is \as.ty.ʁi\.
What does "Asturies" mean?
As a proper noun, "Asturies" means: Province et communauté autonome d’Espagne, bordée par la mer Cantabrique au nord, la Cantabrie à l’est, la province de León au sud, et la Galice à l’ouest.
What words are commonly confused with "Asturies"?
"Asturies" is commonly confused with "astres", "astuces", "assures". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "Asturies"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "Asturies" is \as.ty.ʁi\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "Asturies" come from?
"Asturies" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "Asturies", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 8 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (11 here; floor ≥5).

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list