access
\ˈæk.sɛs\
The verdict
“access” sits in 12 confusable pairs (corpus #18,105) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #18,105
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 4
- tracked misspellings
- 12
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Accès.
Corpus desk
Index FR-access · access · French
access · rank #18,105 · 4 variants · 12 confusables
- FREQ-MID #18,105
- LEN-LONG 6 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-MID 12 pairs
- VAR-LOW 4 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH éveiller
Nearest frequency peer: éveiller (-2 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 « access »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- étudient
étudient
81,900 corpus weight
- étudiées
étudiées
81,899 corpus weight
- éveiller
éveiller
81,898 corpus weight
- access
access
81,896 corpus weight
- admettons
admettons
81,894 corpus weight
- affilié
affilié
81,893 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « access » 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 | access |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ˈæk.sɛs\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #18,105 |
| Misspellings tracked | 4 |
| Confusable pairs | 12 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « access »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for access is neighbouring look-alikes ("aces", "actes", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ˈæk.sɛs\. Frequency #18,105 among 6,727 “A” headwords. 2 recorded senses keep meaning in play.
Our generated misspelling index lists 4 likely wrong-spelling variants for access, with forms such as "accses", "acecss", and "acess". Each of these forms differs from the correct spelling by one small edit: a doubled letter, a dropped silent letter, or a substituted vowel. It also participates in 12 confusable-pair relationships, "aces", "actes", "accusé", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
No explicit etymology string is stored for this entry, 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 access, spelled A-C-C-E-S-S.
Definition
- 1Accès.
- 2Accès. Action d’accéder une donnée.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how access appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
First and foremost, the smartphone is gen Z’s preferred internet access device, but it’s not an easy tool for editing Wikipedia. Even the savviest digital natives find it frustrating to edit the encyclopedia with a small screen.
Since the original physical measurement of the energy consumption of instructions and memory accesses is very time consuming, it should not have to be repeated for every application.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- accses
- acecss
- acess
- cacess
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of access - counted as single-character edits (an insertion, a deletion, or a substituted letter). The larger the bar, the easier the typo is to spot; one-edit slips are the ones that sneak past readers.
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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Similar French words by spelling shape
Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "access", not the corpus desk frequency band.
Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 6 letters (nearest by frequency rank).