1st
\ˈfɝst\
The verdict
“1st” sits in 6 confusable pairs (corpus #47,124) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #47,124
- frequency rank, French
- 11
- “1” headwords
- 6
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Abréviation de first. Premier, 1ᵉʳ.
Corpus desk
Index FR-1st · 1st · French
1st · rank #47,124 · 0 variants · 6 confusables
- FREQ-MID #47,124
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 6 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 11
- PHOTO-FINISH épargnent
Nearest frequency peer: épargnent (-4 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 « 1st »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- édiles
édiles
52,884 corpus weight
- édits
édits
52,883 corpus weight
- épargnent
épargnent
52,881 corpus weight
- 1st
1st
52,877 corpus weight
- abribus
abribus
52,872 corpus weight
- abusée
abusée
52,871 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 1st » 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 | 1st |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \ˈfɝst\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #47,124 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 6 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 1st »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 1st is neighbouring look-alikes ("1X", "1", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \ˈfɝst\. Frequency #47,124 among 11 “1” headwords. Gloss: "Abréviation de first. Premier, 1ᵉʳ.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for 1st, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 6 confusable-pair relationships, "1X", "1", "1e", 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 best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is 1st, spelled 1-S-T.
Definition
- 1Abréviation de first. Premier, 1ᵉʳ.
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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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).