ados
Letters
4 characters
Frequency Rank
#7,780
in French word usage
Misspellings
5
tracked variants
Confusables
20
similar word pairs
ados is aFrenchnoun. It means: Terre qu’on élève en talus, ordinairement le long d’un mur bien exposé, pour y semer quelque chose qu’on veut faire venir plus tôt qu’on ne le pourrait en pleine terre. Pronounced \a.do\. It ranks #7,780 in French word frequency. Often confused with As and ans.
| Property | Value |
|---|---|
| Headword | ados |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \a.do\ |
| Letters | 4 |
| Frequency rank | #7,780 |
| Misspellings tracked | 5 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Frequency rank visualization
Spelling & Dictionary Insight
The French entry for ados is 4 letters long, classified as anoun, and transcribed in the International Phonetic Alphabet as \a.do\. Corpus data places it at rank #7,780 in overall French word frequency, indicating it appears regularly in written and spoken text.Wiktionary records 5 distinct senses for this headword, so context determines which meaning a reader should apply.
Our Hunspell-derived misspelling index lists 5 documented wrong-spelling variants for ados, with forms such as "addos", "adoss", and "adso". Each variant represents a distinct typo pattern that appears often enough in corpora to be worth flagging, typically a doubled-consonant error, a silent-letter drop, or a vowel substitution.It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "As", "ans", "ars", 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 ados, spelled A-D-O-S, and any other sequence of those letters, regardless of how natural it feels, is a misspelling in standard orthography.
Definition
- 1Terre qu’on élève en talus, ordinairement le long d’un mur bien exposé, pour y semer quelque chose qu’on veut faire venir plus tôt qu’on ne le pourrait en pleine terre.
- 2Bande de terre élevée par une charrue de part et d’autre du sillon.
- 3Profil de la planche de labour, dans le labour en planche.
- 4Terrain en pente.
- 5Pente d'un fossé.
Common misspellings
Also misspelled as: addos,adoss,adso,aods,daos
Misspelling Pattern Breakdown
Relative frequency of common misspelling types for ados
Misspelling Variants of "ados"
Frequency rank: #7,780 in French
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Nearby French words
Other entries that begin with the letter A in our French index: