ace
\ɛs\
The verdict
“ace” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #14,189) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #14,189
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Service gagnant sans que l'adversaire ait touché la balle.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ace · ace · French
ace · rank #14,189 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #14,189
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accompagnant
Nearest frequency peer: accompagnant (-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 « ace »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- abc
abc
85,815 corpus weight
- abstrait
abstrait
85,814 corpus weight
- accompagnant
accompagnant
85,813 corpus weight
- ace
ace
85,812 corpus weight
- adressant
adressant
85,811 corpus weight
- agresseurs
agresseurs
85,810 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ace » 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 | ace |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #14,189 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ace »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ace is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛs\. Frequency #14,189 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Service gagnant sans que l'adversaire ait touché la balle.".
We couldn't generate a plausible misspelling set for ace, suggesting the orthography follows predictable French patterns. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best explained by sound-to-letter mapping rather than etymology. The correct French form is ace, spelled A-C-E.
Definition
- 1Service gagnant sans que l'adversaire ait touché la balle.
Recorded use
Wiktionary examplesThese source excerpts show how ace appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Je sers donc pour la balle de match, mais blessé. Il me faut un ace, obligatoirement. Je lance la balle et un peu déséquilibré car je me tiens sur une seule jambe, je sers. Ace. Ace et match !
J'ai tout donné. Je suis allé encore plus loin : j'ai pris son service, cogné, sorti des aces, des volées, des passing-shots, tout l'arsenal. J'ai remporté le troisième set 6-3. Le match m'appartenait ! C'était la première fois que je gagnais contre une tête de série.
Synonyms
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.
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Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).