3
\ʕ\
The verdict
“3” sits in 5 confusable pairs (corpus #121) as a character. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #121
- frequency rank, French
- 13
- “3” headwords
- 5
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - En 3arabizi, retranscrit le ﻉ. Prononciation : \ʕ\.
Corpus desk
Index FR-3 · 3 · French
3 · rank #121 · 0 variants · 5 confusables
- FREQ-CORE #121
- LEN-SHORT 1 letters
- VOW-0 0 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 5 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-MID 13
- PHOTO-FINISH toi
Nearest frequency peer: toi (-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 « 3 »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- moins
moins
99,883 corpus weight
- dont
dont
99,882 corpus weight
- toi
toi
99,881 corpus weight
- 3
3
99,880 corpus weight
- déjà
déjà
99,879 corpus weight
- quoi
quoi
99,878 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « 3 » 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 | 3 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Character |
| IPA | \ʕ\ |
| Letters | 1 |
| Frequency rank | #121 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 5 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « 3 »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for 3 is neighbouring look-alikes ("3e", "3d", …), not just typos; it is acharacter pronounced \ʕ\. Frequency #121 among 13 “3” headwords. Gloss: "En 3arabizi, retranscrit le ﻉ. Prononciation : \ʕ\.".
Zero misspellings are on record for 3 in our index, a sign its spelling follows regular French conventions. It also participates in 5 confusable-pair relationships, "3e", "3d", "3G", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
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 3, spelled 3.
Definition
- 1En 3arabizi, retranscrit le ﻉ. Prononciation : \ʕ\.
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.