AEC
\a.ø.se\
The verdict
“AEC” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #37,154) as an adjective. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.
- #37,154
- frequency rank, French
- 6,727
- “A” headwords
- 20
- confusable pairs
According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Avant l’ère commune. Note d’usage : Placé après une année, un siècle ou un millénaire.
Corpus desk
Index FR-aec · AEC · French
AEC · rank #37,154 · 0 variants · 20 confusables
- FREQ-MID #37,154
- LEN-MID 3 letters
- VOW-2 2 vowels
- CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
- VAR-0 0 variants
- BOOK-DENSE 6,727
- PHOTO-FINISH advienne
Nearest frequency peer: advienne (-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 « AEC »
Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous
- administrat…
administrativement
62,850 corpus weight
- adult
adult
62,849 corpus weight
- advienne
advienne
62,848 corpus weight
- AEC
AEC
62,847 corpus weight
- affectera
affectera
62,846 corpus weight
- affichez
affichez
62,845 corpus weight
What this shows Les barres placent « AEC » 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 | AEC |
| Language | French |
| Part of speech | Adjective |
| IPA | \a.ø.se\ |
| Letters | 3 |
| Frequency rank | #37,154 |
| Misspellings tracked | 0 |
| Confusable pairs | 20 |
| Source | Wiktionary (kaikki.org) |
Rang de corpus près des confusables de « AEC »
Easy to mix with look-alikes
The spelling risk for AEC is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anadjective pronounced \a.ø.se\. Frequency #37,154 among 6,727 “A” headwords. Gloss: "Avant l’ère commune. Note d’usage : Placé après une année, un siècle ou un millénaire.".
No generated misspelling entries exist for AEC in our index, typically a sign the spelling maps closely to how the word sounds. It also participates in 20 confusable-pair relationships, "au", "As", "an", and more, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.
Our source data has no etymology on file for this entry, so its spelling is best read as a straightforward mapping from sound to letter. The correct French form is AEC, spelled A-E-C.
Definition
- 1Avant l’ère commune. Note d’usage : Placé après une année, un siècle ou un millénaire.
Recorded use
Wiktionary exampleThese source excerpts show how AEC appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.
L’invention de l’agriculture en Chine a eu lieu dans le bassin du fleuve Bleu, dans le Sud, avec le début de la domestication du riz vers 8000 AEC.
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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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