1
\œ̃\
The verdict
“1” sits in 9 confusable pairs (corpus #98) as an article. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #98
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- “1” headwords
- 9
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Un, une.
Corpus desk
Index FR-1 · 1 · French
1 · rank #98 · 0 variants · 9 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #98
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 9 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 11
- PHOTO-FINISH France
Nearest frequency peer: France (-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.
Voisins de fréquence du confusable « 1 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- peu
peu
99,906 corpus weight
- autre
autre
99,905 corpus weight
- France
France
99,904 corpus weight
- 1
1
99,903 corpus weight
- 2
2
99,902 corpus weight
- rien
rien
99,901 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 1 » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.
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 | 1 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Article |
| IPA | \œ̃\ |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #98 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 9 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 1 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 1 is neighbouring look-alikes ("1e", "1X", …), not just typos; it is anarticle pronounced \œ̃\. Frequency #98 among 11 “1” headwords. Gloss: "Un, une.".
1 doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 9 confusable-pair relationships, "1e", "1X", "1D", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
Wiktionary doesn't record an etymology for this headword, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is 1, spelled 1.
Definition
- 1Un, une.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how 1 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
g 1 prob, viens stp!
c méga bi1, g 1 meuf!
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.