ae
The verdict
“ae” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #20,911) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #20,911
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Graine.
Corpus desk
Index FR-ae · ae · French
ae · rank #20,911 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #20,911
- LEN-SHORT 2 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH adéquation
Nearest frequency peer: adéquation (-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 « ae »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- académies
académies
79,093 corpus weight
- ADSL
ADSL
79,092 corpus weight
- adéquation
adéquation
79,091 corpus weight
- ae
ae
79,090 corpus weight
- affectant
affectant
79,089 corpus weight
- aimera
aimera
79,088 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « ae » 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 | ae |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Noun |
| Letters | 2 |
| Frequency rank | #20,911 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « ae »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for ae is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun. Frequency #20,911 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Graine.".
ae doesn't appear in our generated misspelling 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, since the words sound or look close enough that writers reach for the wrong one mid-sentence.
This entry carries no recorded etymology, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is ae, spelled A-E.
Definition
- 1Graine.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how ae appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
Kʋamɩn kulo ae tolo.
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.