aces
\ɛs\
The verdict
“aces” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #43,246) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #43,246
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 1
- tracked misspelling
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ace.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aces · aces · French
aces · rank #43,246 · 1 variant · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #43,246
- LEN-MID 4 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-LOW 1 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH accueilleront
Nearest frequency peer: accueilleront (-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 « aces »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- accidentée
accidentée
56,758 corpus weight
- accolé
accolé
56,757 corpus weight
- accueillero…
accueilleront
56,756 corpus weight
- aces
aces
56,755 corpus weight
- acid
acid
56,754 corpus weight
- affairs
affairs
56,752 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « aces » 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 | aces |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ɛs\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #43,246 |
| Misspellings tracked | 1 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « aces »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for aces is neighbouring look-alikes ("As", "ae", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɛs\. Frequency #43,246 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de ace.".
Our generated misspelling index lists 1 likely wrong-spelling variant for aces, including "aecs". 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 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ae", "ans", and more, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is aces, spelled A-C-E-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ace.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as:
- aecs
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of aces - measured in single-character edits (insert, delete, or substitute a letter). Larger bars are easier to catch; one-edit slips are the sneakiest.
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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Same letter count
Frequency-ranked French headwords with 4 letters (nearest by frequency rank).