âge

\ɑʒ\

/\ɑʒ\/ noun

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The verdict

“âge” sits in 20 confusable pairs (corpus #574) as a noun. The look-alike neighbours are the real trap.

#574
frequency rank, French
14
“” headwords
20
confusable pairs

According to Wiktionary data (CC BY-SA, analyzed September 3, 2026) - Période écoulée depuis la naissance d’un être vivant ou la fabrication ou apparition d’une chose.

Corpus desk

Index FR-age · âge · French

âge · rank #574 · 0 variants · 20 confusables

  • FREQ-CORE #574
  • LEN-MID 3 letters
  • VOW-2 2 vowels
  • CONFUS-HIGH 20 pairs
  • VAR-0 0 variants
  • BOOK-MID 14
  • PHOTO-FINISH armée

Nearest frequency peer: armée (+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 « âge »

Pairs de poids proche dans le corpus, séparés des confusables ci-dessous

corpus weight

What this shows Les barres placent « âge » face aux lemmes français les plus proches par rang, pas un reprint du bureau des confusables.

Source FrequencyWords open word-frequency list As of September 3, 2026

Visual similarity to commonly confused words

How many letter changes separate each confused pair (Levenshtein distance, normalized).

âge vs au
0% similar
âge vs As
0% similar
âge vs an
0% similar

Source: PlainSpell confusable corpus (Wiktionary, CC BY-SA).

Key facts for âge
PropertyValue
Headwordâge
LanguageFrench
Part of speechNoun
IPA\ɑʒ\
Letters3
Frequency rank#574
Misspellings tracked0
Confusable pairs20
SourceWiktionary (kaikki.org)

Rang de corpus près des confusables de « âge »

La fréquence va de la poignée de mots du quotidien (gauche) à la longue queue presque jamais vue (droite).âgese place ici:

#1#100#1K#10K#100K
← used constantlyrarely used →

Les tics avancent en logarithme; chacun est de l'ordre de dix fois plus rare. Dans la même bande de rareté figurent « armée » (#575), « bois » (#576), « mêmes » (#571). Parmi 14 lemmes en « Â », « âge » est au #574. Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list.

Easy to mix with look-alikes

The spelling risk for âge is neighbouring look-alikes ("au", "As", …), not just typos; it is anoun pronounced \ɑʒ\. Frequency #574 among 14 “” headwords. 7 recorded senses keep meaning in play.

âge 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, a pairing that trips writers up because the two words share enough sound or shape to blur together.

No borrowing history is documented for this entry, leaving phoneme-to-grapheme mapping as the best guide to its spelling rather than a borrowing history. The correct French form is âge, spelled Â-G-E.

Definition

  1. 1
    Période écoulée depuis la naissance d’un être vivant ou la fabrication ou apparition d’une chose.
  2. 2
    Chacune des parties de la vie d’une personne.
  3. 3
    Âge requis par les lois, pour certains actes, pour certaines fonctions de la société civile.
  4. 4
    Avancement dans la vie, progrès de la vie.
  5. 5
    Vieillesse.
  6. 6
    Durée ordinaire de la vie.
  7. 7
    Un certain nombre de siècles, période de l’Histoire, période de la mythologie gréco-latine.

Recorded use

Wiktionary examples

These source excerpts show how âge appears in context. They illustrate usage; the definition above remains the entry’s reference meaning.

  1. Je ne suis pas arrivé à l’âge de quatre-vingt ans pour rétracter en rien les convictions de ma vie entière.
  2. C’est dommage d’éternuer dans le son à son âge…

This word in other languages

age(English)edad(Español)Alter(Deutsch)idade(Português)

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.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you spell "âge"?
"âge" is spelled Â-G-E. The IPA pronunciation is \ɑʒ\.
What does "âge" mean?
As a noun, "âge" means: Période écoulée depuis la naissance d’un être vivant ou la fabrication ou apparition d’une chose.
What words are commonly confused with "âge"?
"âge" is commonly confused with "au", "As", "an". These words look or sound similar but have different meanings. PlainSpell provides detailed comparisons for each pair.
How do you pronounce "âge"?
The IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet) transcription for "âge" is \ɑʒ\. Click the speaker icon on the pronunciation badge above to hear it spoken aloud where audio is available.
What language does "âge" come from?
"âge" is a French word. You can look up definitions, pronunciations, and spelling data for this and other words across English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, and German on PlainSpell.
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Similar French words by spelling shape

Same letter count and similar misspelling depth for "âge", not the corpus desk frequency band.

Same letter count

Frequency-ranked French headwords with 3 letters (nearest by frequency rank).

feu#568dix#581six#592vas#593

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list