ausculter
\os.kyl.te\
The verdict
“ausculter” is uncommon French (frequency #73,732 among 6,727 “A” headwords), classed as a verb. The kind of spelling people second-guess.
- #73,732
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Écouter, en y appliquant l’oreille, les bruits qui se produisent dans la poitrine, le cœur ou les vaisseaux.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ausculter · ausculter · French
ausculter · rank #73,732 · 0 variants · 0 confusables
- FREQ-RARE #73,732
- LEN-LONG 9 letters
- VOW-4 4 vowels
- CONFUS-0 No pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH auditionne
Nearest frequency peer: auditionne (-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 « ausculter »
Bande clairsemée: les barres inversent le rang pour que le rare se lise plus court
- atteindrons
atteindrons
26,272 corpus weight
- Auderghem
Auderghem
26,271 corpus weight
- auditionne
auditionne
26,270 corpus weight
- ausculter
ausculter
26,269 corpus weight
- autodétruire
autodétruire
26,268 corpus weight
- autoproclam…
autoproclamés
26,267 corpus weight
What this shows Vue de longue queue: où « ausculter » se situe face à des rangs français aussi rares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ausculter |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Verb |
| IPA | \os.kyl.te\ |
| Letters | 9 |
| Frequency rank | #73,732 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 0 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Longue queue: rang de « ausculter » en français
Rare enough to double-check
ausculter is uncommon French at frequency #73,732 among 6,727 “A” headwords, classed as averb, transcribed \os.kyl.te\. Rarity is why readers land here mid-draft. 2 senses are on record.
Zero misspellings are on record for ausculter in our index, a straightforward case of a spelling with little room for common typos. It is not paired with a close-neighbour confusable in our dataset, which typically means the spelling is too distinctive to be mistaken for another word.
This entry's etymology isn't recorded, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is ausculter, spelled A-U-S-C-U-L-T-E-R.
Definition
- 1Écouter, en y appliquant l’oreille, les bruits qui se produisent dans la poitrine, le cœur ou les vaisseaux.
- 2Examiner avec soin.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ausculter appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Ausculter un malade.
M. le censeur le raccompagna jusqu’à la porte, en prononçant des paroles de politesse. Mais lorsqu’il l’ouvrit, Lagneau courbé en deux tomba l’oreille en avant sur la poitrine de M. Pégomas, comme s’il voulait l’ausculter… Son malade surpris le repoussa assez vivement, ce qui permit à Lagneau de prendre la fuite avant d’être reconnu.
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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