A3
\ɑ.tʁwa\
The verdict
“A3” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,334) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,334
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Format de papier mesurant 420 mm × 297 mm.
Corpus desk
Index FR-a3 · A3 · French
A3 · rank #20,334 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,334
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH abattoirs
Nearest frequency peer: abattoirs (+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.
Frequency neighbourhood for “A3”
Lower corpus rank = more everyday usage (inverted bar length for readability)
- érudit
érudit
79,672 corpus weight
- évitent
évitent
79,671 corpus weight
- A3
A3
79,667 corpus weight
- abattoirs
abattoirs
79,666 corpus weight
- acronyme
acronyme
79,664 corpus weight
- Adama
Adama
79,663 corpus weight
What this shows Bars show where “A3” sits against the nearest ranked French headwords in the FrequencyWords band, not a reprint of letter-browse containment.
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 | A3 |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɑ.tʁwa\ |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,334 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Où “A3” se place dans la fréquence du français
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for A3 is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɑ.tʁwa\. Frequency #20,334 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Format de papier mesurant 420 mm × 297 mm.".
No misspelling variants are generated for A3 in our index, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
No documented word history exists for this headword, so spelling patterns must be inferred from the word's phoneme-to-grapheme mapping rather than from a documented borrowing chain. The correct French form is A3, spelled A-3.
Definition
- 1Format de papier mesurant 420 mm × 297 mm.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how A3 appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Le format A3 est le double du format A4 et la moitié du format A2.
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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Wiktionary (via kaikki.org), licensed under CC BY-SA & GFDL. Word ordering uses an open word-frequency list; misspelling variants are generated by edit-distance from the correct headword.