Açores
Letters
6 characters
Frequency Rank
#36,715
in French word usage
Misspellings
8
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
Açores is aFrenchname. It means: Archipel appartenant au Portugal, situé au centre de l’océan Atlantique Nord, à environ 1,450 km à l’ouest de Lisbonne et 2,500 km à l'est-sud-est de Terre-Neuve. Pronounced \a.sɔʁ\. Often confused with acre and ares.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | Açores |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Name |
| IPA | \a.sɔʁ\ |
| Letters | 6 |
| Frequency rank | #36,715 |
| Misspellings tracked | 8 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for Açores is 6 letters long, classified as aname, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.sɔʁ\. Corpus data places it at rank #36,715 in overall French word frequency, marking it as uncommon enough that many writers pause before typing it.Wiktionary records 3 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our generated misspelling index lists 8 likely wrong-spelling variants for Açores, with forms such as "acores", "aoçres", and "açoers". 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, "acre", "ares", "après", and more, where similar look or sound leads writers to substitute one word for another in context.
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. For readers arriving here from a spelling check, the authoritative guidance is: the correct French form is Açores, spelled A-Ç-O-R-E-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Archipel appartenant au Portugal, situé au centre de l’océan Atlantique Nord, à environ 1,450 km à l’ouest de Lisbonne et 2,500 km à l'est-sud-est de Terre-Neuve.
- 2Région du Portugal.
- 3Sous-région du Portugal.
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Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: acores,aoçres,açoers,açoress,açorres,açorse,açroes,çaores
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for Açores
Misspelling Variants of "Açores"
Frequency rank: #36,715 in French
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