acier

\a.sje\

/\a.sje\/ noun

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The verdict

“acier” has 6 generated spelling variants in the French index at frequency #3,974. The variants make it a useful spelling check.

#3,974
frequency rank, French
6,727
“A” headwords
6
tracked misspellings
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Alliage de fer et de carbone, dont la proportion de celui-ci ne dépasse pas 2 %, susceptible d’acquérir, par certains procédés, un grand degré de dureté.

Corpus desk

Index FR-acier · acier · French

acier · rank #3,974 · 6 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-COMMON #3,974
  • LEN-MID 5 letters
  • VOW-3 3 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-MID 6 variants
  • BOOK-DENSE 6,727
  • PHOTO-FINISH abbé

Nearest frequency peer: abbé (-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.

Pairs de rang près de l'aimant d'erreurs « acier »

Même bande de rareté: utile si une faute tombe sur un lemme voisin

corpus weight

What this shows « acier » siège parmi ces pairs FrequencyWords; la profondeur des fautes est suivie à part dans le graphique d'édition.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

acier vs air
60% similar
acier vs aïe
40% similar
acier vs acte
60% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for acier
PropertyValue
Headwordacier
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\a.sje\
Letters5
Frequency rank#3,974
Misspellings tracked6
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Fréquence de l'aimant d'erreurs « acier »

De gauche à droite: le peu qui porte la parole quotidienne, puis la longue queue quasi invisible.acierse place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

L'axe est logarithmique: chaque tic marque environ dix fois moins de fréquence. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « abbé » (#3,973), « épreuves » (#3,972), « voulaient » (#3,971). Parmi 6,727 lemmes en « A », « acier » est au #3,974. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

A misspelling magnet

The generator records 6 spelling variants around acier (IPA \a.sje\), anoun. Corpus frequency is #3,974 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Wiktionary lists 3 senses, so context still picks the gloss.

Our generated misspelling index lists 6 likely wrong-spelling variants for acier, with forms such as "accier", "aceir", and "acierr". Each variant is a distinct typo pattern an edit-distance generator flags, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "air", "aïe", "acte", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.

No documented word history exists for this headword, so its spelling is easiest to reason about phoneme by phoneme, absent a documented history. The correct French form is acier, spelled A-C-I-E-R.

Definition

  1. 1
    Alliage de fer et de carbone, dont la proportion de celui-ci ne dépasse pas 2 %, susceptible d’acquérir, par certains procédés, un grand degré de dureté.
  2. 2
    Industrie et commerce de cet alliage.
  3. 3
    Quelque chose de très dur, résistant.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how acier appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. L’acier fondu a sur l’acier de cémentation l’avantage de l'homogénéité, que ce dernier ne peut avoir.
  2. Tout cela est neuf ; le cuivre et l’acier de la locomotive reluisent, les voitures sont éclatantes, […].

This word in other languages

steel(English)acero(Español)Stahl(Deutsch)aço(Português)

Common misspellings

Also misspelled as:

  • accier
  • aceir
  • acierr
  • acire
  • aicer
  • caier

Misspelling Pattern Breakdown

How far each generated variant is from the correct spelling of acier - 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.

accier1aceir2acierr1acire2aicer2caier2
Edit distance from "acier"

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "acier"?
"acier" is spelled A-C-I-E-R. The IPA pronunciation is \a.sje\.
What does "acier" mean?
As a noun, "acier" means: Alliage de fer et de carbone, dont la proportion de celui-ci ne dépasse pas 2 %, susceptible d’acquérir, par certains procédés, un grand degré de dureté.
What words are commonly confused with "acier"?
"acier" is commonly confused with "air", "aïe", "acte". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "acier"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "acier" is \a.sje\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "acier" come from?
"acier" is a French word. PlainSpell covers definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "acier", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 5 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

géant#3,998milan#3,941marié#3,937marin#3,936

Similar misspelling depth

Headwords with a similar count of attested misspellings (6 here; floor ≥5).

guère6 variantsbleue6 variantsbouffe6 variantsbiais6 variants

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list