ads
\ædz\
The verdict
“ads” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #38,630) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #38,630
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Pluriel de ad.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ads · ads · French
ads · rank #38,630 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #38,630
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-1 1 vowel
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adroit
Nearest frequency peer: adroit (-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 « ads »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- accepterai
accepterai
61,374 corpus weight
- adossée
adossée
61,373 corpus weight
- adroit
adroit
61,372 corpus weight
- ads
ads
61,371 corpus weight
- advient
advient
61,370 corpus weight
- affirmatif
affirmatif
61,369 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ads » 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 | ads |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| IPA | \ædz\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #38,630 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ads »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ads is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ædz\. Frequency #38,630 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Pluriel de ad.".
No misspelling variants are generated for ads in our index, and the word's spelling is regular enough that our generator found nothing worth flagging. 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, so its spelling pattern is best understood through pronunciation rather than a traceable origin. The correct French form is ads, spelled A-D-S.
Definition
- 1Pluriel de ad.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ads appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Facebook allowed an exiled Moldovan oligarch with ties to the Kremlin to run ads calling for protests and uprisings against the pro-western government, even though he and his political party were on US sanctions lists, Associated Press reports.
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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