ada
\a.da\
The verdict
“ada” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #24,840) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #24,840
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Une des espèces de petits oiseaux passereaux d'Amérique, des genres Knipolegus et Hymenops.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ada · ada · French
ada · rank #24,840 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #24,840
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH acharnée
Nearest frequency peer: acharnée (-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 « ada »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- accompagnera
accompagnera
75,164 corpus weight
- accumulés
accumulés
75,163 corpus weight
- acharnée
acharnée
75,162 corpus weight
- ada
ada
75,161 corpus weight
- Adeline
Adeline
75,160 corpus weight
- admirez
admirez
75,158 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ada » 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 | ada |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.da\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #24,840 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ada »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ada is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \a.da\. Frequency #24,840 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Une des espèces de petits oiseaux passereaux d'Amérique, des genres Knipolegus et Hymenops.".
ada doesn't appear in our generated misspelling index, since its letter sequence doesn't invite the usual edit-distance slips. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", 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, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is ada, spelled A-D-A.
Definition
- 1Une des espèces de petits oiseaux passereaux d'Amérique, des genres Knipolegus et Hymenops.
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).